Education Gap

For a long time, parents were seen as the key factor to a child’s success, and longtime State of Opportunity listeners know there are a number of things…

The Washington Post ran a story this week, highlighting disparities in public education funding and calling it "one of the sleeper civil rights issues of…

We've talked about it before, but it's worth repeating: There is a major gap in the way we discipline children in schools. This New York Times piece…

There are principals, and then there's Diedre Zockheem.She's the principal at Myers Elementary, the low-income school featured in our State of Opportunity…

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…

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…

The vast majority of Michigan K-12 schools get between $7,000 - $8,000 per pupil every year. But there are some schools that get more…a lot more. We're…

In our latest documentary, The Education Gap, we talk about the disparities between high-poverty schools and low-poverty schools. I urge you to listen to…

I don't know about you, but I feel like any gap I had in my knowledge about disparities and inequity between schools was closed by Jennifer Guerra's…

A high poverty school in Wayne County is so afraid of the repercussions of speaking honestly about their challenges with staffing, student achievement and…