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Not the South

What is most disturbing about the “we should be like the South” mantra is that, by and large, these are the lowest education attainment states

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State of the State

Thanks to the folks at Crain’s Detroit Business for publishing my reaction to Governor Snyder’s first State of the State address. You can find it

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High School Struggles

MDRC has done a comprehensive evaluation of New York City’s new small high schools. I think the findings are quite important. Mainly because NYC under Joel

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A list you want to be on

Fascinating article on Yahoo Finance on the states with the highest proportion of households with incomes of $200,000 or more. There are now 4.5 million

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Two Steps in the Right Direction

Governor Granholm and the lame duck legislature in December enacted an important change in Michigan transportation policy. They are to be commended. The new policy,

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Not Texas

The state we are probably lectured about the most as a model for how Michigan state government should work like is Texas. The story goes

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