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There’s a war raging in Lansing over the future of academic testing in Michigan.Last fall, Michigan school kids took what was supposed to be their last…

We've written here about some new thinking on "grit" and how to set a kid up to have enough to make a difference in their future success. We've also done…

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…

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…

Race. We're going to be talking a lot about race and racial disparities over the coming months. I, for one, am working on an hour-long special about race…