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The big test is coming. "I don’t even want to take it, says Musa, a third grader at Congress Elementary in Grand Rapids. "I'm not a big fan of tests."Musa…

Monday's Morning Edition broadcast featured an interview with 23-year-old Amina Salwan, a survivor of chemical attacks in Syria. In her conversation with…

Schools in Michigan will face a big change next year in student testing. After more than four decades in use, the Michigan Educational Assessment Program,…

We're getting ready for a new project here at State of Opportunity. We're excited about it.We'll take the experiences of families in towns and cities…

Today we have an update from a story we brought you in January. For that story, a documentary we called "The Big Test," I spent six weeks following a…

State of Opportunity is closing in on its second anniversary. The project officially began in April 2011, with the first stories hitting the air in July…

Like many other college-educated, NPR-listening, middle-class white parents in America, I've read the latest cover story in The Atlantic, "The…

Infowire fills the information gap and meets the news needs of families struggling to make ends meet. Get all Infowire alerts by texting INFOWIRE to…

This week, the Annie E. Casey Foundation released a national report that caught our eye. The report is part of the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Kids Count…

Actually, we're already working on the next Infowire story. But, we're open to ideas for the story after that. As a refresher, the idea behind Infowire is…