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Last fall, I spent a ton of time in two different fifth-grade classrooms: one made up of poor kids, the other made up of kids whose families are mostly…

The idea behind Head Start is fairly simple: Preschool education for the nation's most disadvantaged kids. The program turns 50 next year. There are reams…

(This story originally appeared on Michigan Radio on Sept. 6, 2013.) What if something other than jobs could rebuild Detroit?What if the purpose of…

When you know exactly what you want to study, whittling down the list of colleges can be a little easier. It was for me; by my junior year in high school,…

Whitney Walker has had a lot of jobs in her life. But she was never content until she landed at her current gig as the office manager at the James and…

The James and Grace Lee Boggs School just wrapped up its first year. It’s a K-4 charter on Detroit's eastside that hopes to grow to a K-12. The school had…

What I'm about to share with you is MUST-READ material. It's a multi-part series on charter schools from the folks at the Detroit Free Press. To quote my…

Here's the dilemma: You are one of the many American parents with a kid in day care. The kid gets a sniffle or a cold. The day care calls you to take them…

The buzzer comes out. The kids get amped. For Jan Jeske's kids at Ruben Daniels Middle School in Saginaw, a war is about to break out, and she's totally…

We know racial segregation exists in our communities. We know this segregation is rooted in history. And yet, sometimes we allow ourselves to believe that…