

Community colleges need to be redesigned
At least rhetorically––not so much when it comes to funding––there is a lot of support on a bi-partisan basis for community colleges. They are seen
At least rhetorically––not so much when it comes to funding––there is a lot of support on a bi-partisan basis for community colleges. They are seen
After reading the title of this post, I’m sure many of you are asking “What does baseball statistics have to do with standardized tests?” The
2017 per capita income data for states has been published. What the data make clear for Michigan is that we are now structurally a low-prosperity
The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis’ report The Financial Returns from College across Generations: Large but Unequal details the bachelors degree premium irrespective of
In our last post we explored 2017 American Community Survey data on median earnings from work of those 25 and older who worked for the
The recently released 2017 American Community Survey provides data on median earnings from work of those 25 and older who worked. The table at the
Important new report from the Economic Policy Institute on the continuing pulling away of the top one percent from the bottom 99 percent. The big
The Federal Reserve recently published their Report on the Economic Well-Being of U.S. Households in 2017. It reports on the results of a survey of American’s assessments
Our second most read post recently is a 2016 post on what skilled trades jobs pay. I wrote the 2016 post because I was then––and am
Test scores have become the sole fixation of our education system. At least since the passage of No Child Left Behind in 2001, states, districts,
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