My first blog entry for HuffPostDetroit featured the MADE Men who provide the eyes and ears of citizens' patrols around Detroit Public Schools' Osborn, Brenda Scott, Turning Point and Fleming School buildings in northeast Detroit.

This morning I spent an hour with Calvin Colbert and four other...

On February 22nd, in a great day for Detroit and particularly east side residents in Morningside Commons and adjacent neighborhoods, General Motors Chairman and CEO Dan Akerson and his wife Karin provided the lead $1 million personal gift for Habitat for Humanity's Leaders to ReBuild Detroit campaign during a ceremony...

In the half-week since Detroit Public Schools announced school changes for the 2012-13 academic year, some attention has centered on the plans to move achieving school programs, intact, into larger, better facilities, renaming the program at the new site after the successful school.

This fall, Ludington Magnet Middle School...

Good stories, along with troubling ones, come across our desks each week. Some have the potential to make one laugh, others, cry. And every now and then Detroit Public Schools announces something for which a silly little grin comes across my own face. That expression usually takes a while to...

Ann Crowley is the kind of teacher and teaching professional that the distance she will go to assist children isn't likely to surprise anyone who has met her. But even by her high standards and buffered by some advance notices, it was a sight to make you stop and take...

So you think you have your mind made up about what parent involvement looks like in a big city school district? Have you convinced yourself that it's the lack of parental engagement that will inhibit even the most courageous educational reform platforms?

Think again.

It's mid-morning on the first...

Two years ago, the entire city came together when the news was released that Detroit students scored a record low on the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the NAEP. NAEP is the largest nationally representative and continuing assessment of what America's students know and can do in various subject areas.

This isn't just another complaint about the mainline media, or maybe it is.

But the continual portrayal of this city in images and verse as one with flames ripping from rooftops, bodies dumped in fields and hopeless conditions for its youth, adults, and any leaders ever courageous to do...