
Worth reading and watching
I keep intending to do a post on what I am reading. But there turns out to be too much interesting to write about and

I keep intending to do a post on what I am reading. But there turns out to be too much interesting to write about and

At my freshman year college orientation 30 years ago this month, a high-ranking university official asked students to look to their left and to their

There’s quite a bit that determines whether or not a student is successful in college. They need to have good study habits, be able to

Conventional wisdom is that one of the main culprits in the so-called skill shortage is that all Michigan kids are being pushed to get a

At Governor Rick Snyder’s recent Higher Education Summit, George L. Mehaffy, Vice President for Academic Leadership and Change for the American Association of State Colleges

Terrific Dustin Walsh column in Crain’s Detroit Business entitled Businesses have key to labor shortage — higher wages. This is a position we have laid out many

Michigan Future Schools, an initiative of Michigan Future, Inc. that Lou, Pat, Kim and I (your regular bloggers here at MFI) all worked on, wound

Summit charter schools in California and Washington state are often included on the list of charter networks that are getting big urban student achievement

The centerpiece of our education policy agenda is that our education system should prepare students not for a first job, but for a forty-year career.

Recently, Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan announced a new program that offers homes in the city’s 30,000-property land bank to employees of Detroit schools – both
January 27, 2026
November 21, 2025
November 19, 2025