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Report from “Outsmarting the Robots”: Part 2
Last week I wrote about “Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing,” an event we co-hosted in October with
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Report from “Outsmarting the Robots”: Part 1
On October 21, Michigan Future co-hosted a convening in downtown Grand Rapids for 60 community leaders called Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom
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25-34 year old African Americans B.A. earnings premium
In a previous post we explored the huge B.A. earnings premium for 25-34 year olds. In this post I want to explore how well 25-34
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We support, but are disappointed in, charter schools
Reading Richard Whitmire’s worth reading The B.A. Breakthrough reminded me why Michigan Future has been supportive of charter schools from their inception in Michigan more
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Updated B.A. earnings premium for 25-34 year olds
2018 work earnings data are now available from the Current Population Survey. What follows is an update of an earlier post now with 2018 data.
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A capitalist calls for a new capitalism
Salesforce chairman and co-C.E.O Marc Benioff in a New York Times op ed entitled We Need a New Capitalism becomes another capitalist advocating for big