Water Quality: Grosse Pointe North Students Test at Metro Beach

Grosse Pointe North High School students are testing water quality in Lake St. Clair. Results will come next week. Environmental...

Detroit King High School Will Play Cass Tech for PSL Division One Championship

  Detroit King High School WILL play Cass Tech in the PSL Division 1 football championship Friday night.  The game...

Governor Snyder: DPS Needs An Overhaul

Marissa Gawel/WDET Governor Rick Snyder is asking the Legislature to take bills on Detroit schools overhaul, including creating a new...

Skillman Foundation Responds to Governor Snyder’s Plan for DPS Debt

Stephen Henderson speaks with Coalition for the Future of Detroit Schoolchildren co-chair and Skillman Foundation CEO Tonya Allen for a response...

Michigan Passes A New Reading Requirement for Third Graders

Host Stephen Henderson talks with Jennifer Lewis, Assistant Professor in the Division of Teacher Education at Wayne State University, about...

How Easy is it to Teach Reading?

Host Stephen Henderson talks with callers about the state’s new legislation to help Detroit’s public schools.   Standards: Brad Biladeau,...

Retired Teachers May Be Able to Return as Substitutes

Creative Commons by Ben Russell Retired teachers would able to return to work in schools with a shortage in substitute...

Is Binge Drinking on Campuses Out of Control?

A University of Michigan student died over the summer after falling from a parking deck, and through a glass enclosure....

Knight Cities Challenge

The Knight Cities Challenge awards grants to local activists for a chance to make their vision of a better community...

How We Balance Freedom and Safety in a Pro-Gun Society

Yet another mass killing last week has attention focused again on gun control. What’s reasonable? What’s doable? What will work?...

United Way of Genesee County and Others Donate Funds for Filters in Flint

Laura Nawrocik/ CC The United Way of Genesee County is partnering with the county’s health department to distribute water filters...

UM Study Receives $10 Million to Understand Interplay Between Environment and Childhood Health

The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences is awarding University of Michigan researchers $10 million to examine the connection between...