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Education leaders and policy makers have attempted to improve standardized test scores with strategies like longer school days and smaller class sizes.But…
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We do a lot of stories about what’s not working in education, but today we’re going to flip the script and talk about a school that’s doing really well,…
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More than 95,000 children in Michigan are considered "English language learners." It’s up to schools to get those students to learn English as quickly as…
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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…
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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…
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State of Opportunity is back with documentaries and call-in shows for 2014!First up: our call-in show this Thursday asks, "Do at-risk kids have more on…
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The new Kids Count report is out, and things are not looking good for kids in Michigan. You would think with the recession now a few years behind us that…
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Last week, the House Education committee at the state capitol passed a piece of legislation that would force schools to flunk any third grader who failed…
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I've been thinking a lot lately about standardized state tests. This fall, I spent about six weeks observing a classroom of third graders in Grand Rapids…