the education gap

Brian Whiston is the new guy in town at the Michigan Department of Education, and it looks like he's got poverty on the brain. Whiston and the state Board…

The type of education a child in Michigan gets depends in large part on where he or she lives. That's because Michigan is under no legal obligation to…

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…

If you’re like me and you know just a little bit about the history of education in Michigan, you might already know that a lot of what we see in our…