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A Parent’s “Course” to Helping Their Student Find the Right College
There really are no rights or wrongs for parents who want to help their child choose a college, because every student is different in so many ways — their dreams, their goals, their skill set, their comfort level, and so many other things.
Editor’s Letter: Back to School, Closer to Normal
Editor Dan Caccavaro on the March issue of 'Hour Detroit'
Education Post-COVID – A Generational Rescue Mission
With the average student expected to lose up to nine months of education by the end of the 2020-21 school year, how do we get back on track?
A New Picture Book Set in Detroit Helps Children Understand COVID-19 Safety
‘How My School Fights a Virus’ shares kid-friendly tips on returning to school
Michigan’s First Transgender Teacher of the Year on Being the Educator He Needed
Owen Bondono says his classroom is a "safe environment where students can be themselves”
Former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings on the GOP and Pandemic Schooling
The Ann Arbor native sees "no risk-free way" to get kids back to school
How Metro Detroit Teachers Are Handling Returning To School During the Pandemic
For both veteran and rookie teachers, COVID-19 means a fall fraught with difficult decisions
GM’s New YouTube Summer School Series Aims to STEM Boredom
Electric car charging, electric car motors, and autonomous vehicle sensors are some of the topics the series explores
Social Tykes to Be a Hub for Overextended Parents and Their Little Ones
The play space is expected to open in Corktown this summer
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Student-Centered Outlook
There’s so much buzz around selecting a college nowadays that America has made a holiday of sorts out of it. Depending on who you...
Specs Howard Marks 50 years of Launching Broadcast Careers
At 93, the disc jokey-turned mentor is as sharp and charismatic as ever and still goes to his namesake institution weekly
Local School Districts Supporting Students in Need of Meals Amid Closures
Curbside pick-ups, drive-through services, and deliveries are made available for students and parents amid the COVID-19 crisis
Standardized Testing is No Longer Just a Benchmark of College Preparedness
One Hour Detroit editor decodes how standardized tests have become a measure of self worth for an increasing number of high school students
A Charlotte Mason School Finds Its Permanent Home in Detroit
The private academy is settling down after 17 years
Chicago’s New Mayor Is a U of M Graduate
Lori Lightfoot earned her degree from the university in 1984
Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit Makes the Case for Sending Your Child to a...
A look into the unique summer experience that Mosaic Youth Theatre of Detroit creates for children
Introducing U-M’s Nobel Prize-Winning Professor, Gerard Mourou
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics — which was divided by two — was an ode to lasers. One half of the honor was...
The New Age Take on Debate Club
In Plato’s dialogue Meno, the philosopher Socrates asks, “Is virtue the same in child and slave?” He presses the work’s namesake, Thessalian political figure...
Detroit Poet Natasha T. Miller Defines the Phrase “What Up Doe”
*What Up Doe, Whadupdoe, Waddupdoe: It’s a greeting, a phrase, a word with multiple spellings, yet one meaning — home. In June 2016, I was...
Upward Bound
Just last year, pedestrians could peer into the glass windows of Andiamo Trattoria and find smiling faces of diners swirling pasta noodles.