Michigan School Dashboard Seeks to Solve Huge Problem for Parents
Jake Neher/WDET Michigan parents have long struggled to evaluate and compare public schools in a data-based way. More often than...
Michigan School Dashboard Seeks to Solve Huge Problem for Parents
Jake Neher/WDET Michigan parents have long struggled to evaluate and compare public schools in a data-based way. More often than...
State Launches New Tool for School Transparency
Michigan Department of Education Michigan parents now have a new tool to vet their child’s school. The state launched the...
Former Marygrove Undergraduates Find Paths to Graduation at Other Universities
WDET/Laura Herberg This past summer, Emily Hill was getting ready to start her junior year at Marygrove College. She had...
School Closings for Friday, Jan. 4, 2018
Wayne County: Grosse Pointe Harper Woods Oakland County: Berkley Birmingham Brandon Clawson Farmington Ferndale Holly Lake Orion Rochester Royal Oak...
Marygrove Starts Winter Semester Without Undergraduate Offerings
Marygrove College in Detroit is now officially open only to graduate students. The college announced in August it would focus...
WSU Word Warriors Compile List of Couth, Recondite Words
Compiling a list can seem like a task that's impossible to overcome. There's a word for that feeling: "insuprable." It's...
Banished Word List Has Tons of Impactful Entries
Lake Superior State University just released it's annual list of "banished" words and phrases. This year, there's a lot to...
POLITICO Magazine’s Tim Alberta on Being A Political Reporter Through First Year of Trump
POLITICO POLITICO Magazine feature reporter Tim Alberta covers national politics in Washington. In that role, he had the first lengthy...
Former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade Talks About Life-Changing 2017
Jake Neher/WDET 2017 has been an interesting year -- and there are several people from Michigan who have had standout...
State Supreme Court Gives Back $550 Million
The Michigan Supreme Court has ruled the state must repay more than $550 million collected from school employees. Governor Jennifer...
StoryCorps Detroit: “Much better than everything people said you were”
Jennifer Smith is the founder of Closing the Gap, a nonprofit that uses personalized mentorship to help Detroit students enter...
School District Closings for Thursday, Dec. 14
Wednesday's winter storm closed public school districts throughout southeast Michigan. Click on the county button to see a list of...