Oracle bringing 8,500 high-wage jobs to Nashville
Last month Oracle announced they are bringing 8,500 jobs at an average salary of $110,000 to central city Nashville. The company will invest $1.2 billion
Turning a K-shaped economy into an economy that benefits all
K-shaped economy is how many describe our economy since the pandemic. And most expect the recovery to be K-shaped as well. The reality is that
The 2019 Michigan economy was not one of our best ever
The Michigan Association of United Ways recently reported that in Michigan’s strong pre-pandemic 2019 economy 38 percent of Michigan households were unable to pay for
A Pathway for Every Child: What Now? Ep. 10 with Pam Moran and Ira Socol
Two threads came together for me recently. In talking with Colin Seale, the keynoter at our recent conversation on educational equity that we titled “Beyond
Our community college completion challenge
A year ago I wrote about the year two results from the MDRC evaluation of the Detroit Promise Plus program. This post is largely a
Wonder Workshops: Bringing Identity and Inquiry Into Schooling: What Now? Ep. 9 with Lisa Bergman and Lisa Diaz
It’s commonly observed that a school’s culture for children is a mirror of a school’s culture for adults. At Mt. Pleasant’s Renaissance Public School Academy,
