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The Truth About The Relationship Between Education And Earnings

The truth about the relationship between education and earnings

  • January 21, 2021
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 1 Comment

We are continually confronted by the myth that there are lots of good-paying jobs that don't require higher education. "Not everyone should go to college," people claim. While that's true on a personal level--not every person will benefit from college,…

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Winning In The 21st Century: Northern Virginia

Winning in the 21st Century: Northern Virginia

  • January 12, 2021
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

Northern Virginia quite literally won economically in the 21st Century when Amazon chose them as the location for one of two HQ2s. Winning what was described by pundits as the Super Bowl of economic development competitions. HQ2 brings to Northern…

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What Are And How To Teach 21st Century Skills

What are and how to teach 21st century skills

  • November 17, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

A little more than a year ago the Grand Rapids Public Museum hosted Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The conference was organized around the question "how do we redesign our system for…

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Our Turn To Learn: Alumni Tracking, Adapting, And The “Book Scholarship” Program (A Guest Post From Benjamin Carson High School)

Our Turn to Learn: Alumni Tracking, Adapting, and the “Book Scholarship” Program (A Guest Post from Benjamin Carson High School)

  • October 15, 2020
  • Sean Henry
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

We're pleased today to share this post from Sean Henry, the College Transition Advisor at Benjamin Carson High School of Science and Medicine. Michigan Future helped to secure book scholarship funding for BCHS, thanks to the generous support of the…

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A 21st Century Education – Technology Not Required

A 21st Century Education – Technology Not Required

  • September 24, 2020
  • Patrick Cooney
  • Blog, Talent
  • 1 Comment

This post originally ran in February 2017. We are rerunning it because of its relevance to the discussion we should be having about what post-pandemic education should looks like for all students. Whether in school or learning at home. Nearly…

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Relationships + Meaningful Work -> Engagement -> Learning

Relationships + meaningful work -> engagement -> learning

  • September 17, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

I’m pleased to refer our readers over to a recent opinion piece by journalism professors Andrea Gabor and Vera Haller at CUNY’s Baruch College in New York on what they learned during the spring’s quick pivot to remote learning. I…

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Remote Learning Projects At Out-of-School Programs

Remote Learning Projects at Out-of-School Programs

  • August 27, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

One thing we have learned as we’ve met with people across the state of Michigan about the need to reform education so that students are learning broad skills (we have adopted the 6Cs as the definition of those skills) is…

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Imagining, And Reimagining, Education

Imagining, and Reimagining, Education

  • August 20, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

I’ve been writing recently about both my family’s experience with remote learning this spring, and what's missing from our preparation for remote learning in the 2020-2021 school year. I hope I’ve made the point that remote learning deserves major investment…

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Inequality And Four-year Degree Attainment

Inequality and four-year degree attainment

  • August 13, 2020
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
  • 2 Comments

Four-year degree attainment is essential to eliminating income and racial inequality. As the chart below makes clear, those with a four-year degree or more work more and earn more. In a terrific analysis of four-year degree graduation rates by race…

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Where Is Our National Task Force On Remote Learning?

Where is our national task force on remote learning?

  • July 31, 2020
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Talent
  • 0 Comments

This morning I woke up sure that my kids should go back to school when it reopens in just over a month. Knowing their school is planning outdoor classrooms helps diminish my fear somewhat, so that the risk we’d be…

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