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No doubt you’ve heard by now about Pokemon Go!. It was all the rage this summer. But we did manage to find a group of kids who put down their smartphones…

How do you navigate life on the outside after you’ve been locked up in prison for years? That’s a question more than 6,000 federal inmates recently faced…

If you graduated high school in June and college doesn’t start until fall, probably homework is the last thing on your mind during summer. But for some…

Chris Reynolds will never forget his first day on campus at the University of Michigan. He and his dad had gotten up super early to drive the nine hours…

Last week we did a story about whether people judge others based on how they speak. (Spoiler alert: Yep, they do.) One African-American high school…

We're data geeks here at State of Opportunity. And there's a treasure trove of data (and more to come!) housed at the Institute for Social Research at the…

More than 400,000 children are currently in foster care in the U.S. Once a child has entered the system, they remain there on average for nearly two…

Classrooms are becoming more diverse, with Black and Latino students filling up more seats than ever before. But across the country, for the most part,…