Wayne State University

School exodus

Detroit

April 15, 2019

Thousands of Detroit students leave the city every day to go to school. A new study helps explain why.

A new study sheds light on why Detroit students are leaving the city for school.

Student & School Performance

Detroit

October 2, 2018

The children of 8B: One classroom, 31 journeys, and the reason it’s so hard to fix Detroit’s schools

The 31 eighth-graders in Bethune’s “8B” homeroom had collectively attended a total of 128 schools — an average of more than four schools each. They are among countless others just like them in cities like Detroit — kids who’ve spent their childhoods starting over every couple of years, navigating new schools, trying to fit in.

survey says

Detroit

October 2, 2018

Detroit makes it easy to switch schools. So parents do. Frequently.

Overwhelmingly, Detroit parents said they moved their children to new schools because they wanted better for their child — a safer school, a cleaner school, the kind of school where their children could thrive.

Detroit Story Booth

Detroit

August 6, 2018

Watch this Detroit student read his poem about teachers who thought his differences were ADHD

This Detroiter's poem deals with how his teachers treated him when they thought he had ADHD or autism.

talking attendance

Detroit

February 28, 2018

Most Detroit kindergartners miss too much school. They’ll likely struggle to read later.

Truancy might bring to mind teenagers skipping class to hang out with their friends or play video games, but in Detroit, it’s the…

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