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Summer school

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Detroit district adding grades K-2 to summer school to help youngest students boost reading scores

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Detroit

2 days ago

As a global robotics competition descends on Detroit, few local students are included — for now

Developing Dads

Detroit

2 days ago

From reading to breastfeeding, Detroit dads learn how to engage with their pre-K children

more money fewer problems

Detroit

April 20, 2018

Detroit teachers will finally get paid for their years of experience if agreement holds up with district

Detroit's future

Detroit

April 19, 2018

Despite top scores in quality standards, Michigan’s early education programs neglect English language learners

Michigan’s 4-year-olds receive some of the highest quality education and care available in the country — that is, if your child can speak…

What's in a name?

Detroit

April 18, 2018

Detroit has schools named for a slaveholder, a convicted former politician, and a Trump cabinet member. Here’s how that might change.

Despite the passion fueling the debate over renaming schools like the Ben Carson High School of Science and Medicine, members of the Detroit…

Homework

Detroit

April 17, 2018

The Detroit district’s first homework policy is in the works. See how much homework it recommends your child do every night.

Detroit students who are drowning in homework — or unable to complete it because of challenges at home — could soon find relief in a…

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Detroit

April 16, 2018

Let’s solve the right problems for Detroit’s students with disabilities — not recycle old ones

I’ve spent 25 years both studying and actively trying to improve schools for students with disabilities. Segregated settings aren't the answer.

a temporary home

Detroit

April 12, 2018

These students lost their school to a mold problem. Here’s how they’re doing in their new temporary digs

Five school buses line up outside the closed Palmer Park Preparatory Academy on Thursday morning. Hundreds of elementary students, in a flurry of…

a new standard

Detroit

April 11, 2018

Facing dead-last national test scores, Detroit district approves new teaching materials

The Detroit school board Tuesday adopted a new, $7.1 million curriculum that Superintendent Nikolai Vitti says is a key part of his plan…

Rock bottom

Detroit

April 10, 2018

Detroit schools ranked worst on national exam — again. But is there hope that things can improve?

Not only did students in the city’s main district rank dead last — for the fifth time — among major cities in every subject, but their scores dropped even lower than the rock-bottom numbers Detroit fourth-graders posted the last time they took the exam in 2015.

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