State of Opportunity from Michigan Radio
Summary: State of Opportunity exposes the barriers Michigan children of low income families face in achieving success.
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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...
Teacher evaluations have become a hot political topic in Michigan. Chances are if you’ve heard anything about them, the discussion has been about how to...
Michigan’s foster care system is the sixth-biggest in the country, with more than 13,000 kids around the state. The system has been plagued by problems...
Schools in Michigan will face a big change next year in student testing. After more than four decades in use, the Michigan Educational Assessment...
This story has been updated to reflect new information. Our State of Opportunity project has been following the story of a little boy named Charlie....
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."...
Tomorrow, on State of Opportunity, we’re airing a new documentary, called The Big Test. To report the documentary, I spent six weeks in the fall...
Do the Right Thing It’s the second week of January. Students have just returned from winter break. With the bonus snow days, they haven’t been in...
Every Morning, Every Night Christopher Gaston is usually the first kid to arrive at school every morning. And he’s almost always the last one to leave...
Over the last year, however, money in the district has gotten really tight. Superintendent Carl Heidrich shows me charts and bar graphs outlining these...
For the next few days we're featuring stories of ordinary listeners who read or heard a story on State of Opportunity and decided to give some of their...
The blogosphere has been abuzz the last week or so about What Poor People Do (Or Don't Do). The topic of savings often comes up in discussions about the...
I don't know about you, but when I was in school, hearing the school bell ring at the end of the day meant one thing: freedom! Time to go home, get a...
I've been thinking a lot about names lately - what they mean, what they project, what kinds of assumptions people make when they hear a name. So I...
Things are settling down at the Anderson’s house in Northwest Detroit. The two high-schoolers are doing homework and talking to their parents. Like at...
