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Today, the story of how a B-list celebrity reshaped the Republican party…in the 1970s. We chat with the host of the podcast Landslide, which explores how the presidential face-off between Gerald Ford and Ronald Reagan helped shape our current political climate. Then, book lovers unite in Detroit! A community event is coming this weekend, uniting readers across genres and generations.
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What the Project 2025 playbook might look like for Michigan during a second Trump term. Then, a beautifully illustrated 60-year-old children’s book written by a nonagenarian Beaver Island resident publishes for the first time. And, things to keep in mind for yourself and children while summertime doom scrolling on your phone.
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Michigan public school students would undergo periodic screenings for dyslexia under legislation passed Tuesday in the state Senate.
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Senate Bill 567 would re-tool early elementary reading assessments to screen for signs of dyslexia, while companion bill SB 568 would boost instruction about spotting the learning disability in teacher education programs.
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Middle school is a notoriously difficult time to be a kid. We talked with Detroit-based author Jack Cheng about his new young adult novel, The Many Masks of Andy Zhou.
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Michigan third graders would no longer face a state retention recommendation for not reading at grade level under a bill that passed the Legislature Wednesday.
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Looking for a new read in 2023? Here are the Detroit Public Library's most checked-out books of 2022Detroiters were on the case this year. Or at least, they were reading about the cases. Mysteries lead this year’s top books at the Detroit Book Library.
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Book Beat, a bookstore in Oak Park, celebrated its 40th birthday this past weekend.
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Thousands of Michigan students have been cut adrift from their school communities as the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered school buildings. Their…
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Today on Stateside, Michigan students are improving their academic performance in comparison to peers in other states. We'll talk about what that tells us…