Education Inequalities

Is Michigan ready for a ‘grand bargain’ to improve its struggling education system?
Detroit

19 hours ago

School accountability

Detroit

2 days ago

Concerned with state A-F grading system, Vitti says he’ll lobby for Detroit to keep its own plan

meet and greet

Detroit

2 days ago

How Corletta Vaughn got elected to Detroit’s school board — and what she wants to get done

Detroit Enrollment

Detroit

3 days ago

After a count day decline, officials say enrollment begins to rebound in Detroit’s district

where does the buck stop?

Detroit

January 10, 2019

Unpaid bonuses leave former Detroit charter school teachers steaming. But who’s on the hook?

Detroit's future

A-F Law

Detroit

January 9, 2019

Could Michigan’s new A-F law cost the state federal funding?

It's been controversial from the start. But now there are questions about whether Michigan's new A-F law could cost the state federal funding.

Improving Head Start

Detroit

January 8, 2019

Head Start grants will boost training, teacher recruitment

Difficulties recruiting and retaining Head Start teachers is a major problem facing the programs, and the grants issued Tuesday will help.

key players

Detroit

January 7, 2019

Meet the top administrators working behind the scenes to improve the Detroit district

These Detroit administrators have key roles to play in the historic effort to turn around Michigan's largest school district.

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University-Schools Partnership

Detroit

January 3, 2019

How social justice and engineering will shape a new Detroit high school at Marygrove

The deadline for applying to any of the examination schools in the Detroit school district — including the new school at Marygrove College — is Jan. 18.

How I Teach

Detroit

January 2, 2019

This Detroit master teacher doesn’t mind the tough adjustment to a new curriculum. ‘It just works.’

Here, in a feature we call How I Teach, we ask educators who’ve been recognized for their work how they approach their jobs.

year in review

Detroit

December 21, 2018

Our most-read stories of 2018: Curriculum changes, a charter school closing, a new way to train teachers and more

As we head into 2019, we thought we'd take a moment to reflect on our top stories and most read stories from last year.

Lame Duck

Detroit

December 21, 2018

‘Absolute hypocrisy’: Michigan educators slam GOP vote on school funding

Is it a cut or a shift in funding? Educators in Michigan are angry over a bill that passed the Michigan Legislature overnight they say will cut school funding.

Moving Costs

Finding solutions

Detroit

November 7, 2018

Forum to seek solutions to Detroit’s problems with frequent school moves

The discussion, 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 15 at the main branch of the Detroit Public Library at 5201 Woodward, will be recorded and later aired on WDET's “Detroit Today” and DPTV's “American Black Journal.”

Detroit

October 10, 2018

Enrollment instability is a major reason why schools are struggling — so why isn’t anyone tracking the problem?

A Milwaukee newspaper that surveyed the education departments in all 50 states found that half don’t collect or post data on students hopping around. And of states that do collect the data, the numbers they collect are so inconsistent that making state-to-state comparisons is nearly impossible.

Moving costs

Detroit

October 3, 2018

Michigan gubernatorial candidates Schuette, Whitmer push for bus fixes to help Detroit schools

One day after an investigation by Chalkbeat and Bridge Magazine found 1 in 3 Detroit elementary students switched schools every year, candidates Bill Schuette and Gretchen Whitmer said their education plans could help.

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strike vote looming

Colorado

Updated 16 hours ago

Denver district, board members frame teacher contract negotiations as debate over values

There are two days of negotiations scheduled before a potential strike vote on Saturday.

big plans

Tennessee

2 days ago

Memphis plan would expand turnaround program, screen all first-graders for gifted education

The recommendations are the first from the district’s new chief academic officer, Antonio Burt, who was appointed in September.

First Person

Colorado

18 hours ago

Why I won’t strike: Denver teachers in high-poverty schools, like me, deserve real bonuses

What else will bring teachers into the places where we need them the most? A sense of vocation and moral purpose, for sure, but that ignores reality.

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