Lets Grow, Not Shrink, Detroit
Detroit needs a growth agenda. And the rest of us need to support it. There is a clear pattern across the country: the most prosperous
May 20, 2010
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Detroit needs a growth agenda. And the rest of us need to support it. There is a clear pattern across the country: the most prosperous
Michigan Future Schools – our high school accelerator – is now hiring its first two professional. You can find details here. More than anything else
Our politics are characterized by hyper partisanship and an unwillingness to tackle the big issues. So at a time when leadership matters most, we get
Don Grimes and I are working on the latest update of the Michigan’s Transition to a Knowledge-Based Economy report. It will be out in May.
I finally had the time to take a look at the annual competitiveness report published by Business Leaders for Michigan. The one that gets so
In my last post I asked the question “do higher growth rates predict that Mississippi will have higher per capita income than Minnesota?” I picked
In a series of columns the Mackinac Center asserts that Mississippi is a state that Michigan should use as model. One criticized a recent post
Good article (with video interview of George Fulton) by Nathan Bomey at AnnArbor.com. Its called Education Chasm. Its the new reality we all need to
So what are the specifics that higher education can learn from successful urban high schools to substantially improve student outcomes? By substantial improvement I mean
When I committed to writing a blog twice a week I worried that I wouldn’t have enough to write about. Boy was I wrong. The
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