
Schools moving away from standardized tests and online learning
Summit charter schools in California and Washington state are often included on the list of charter networks that are getting big urban student achievement

Education for a forty-year career
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.

Low unemployment doesn’t mean a prosperous Michigan
The most important recommendation in our new state policy agenda is that we change the mission of state economic policy to a rising household

Incentivizing Detroit homeownership for teachers could boost student, community outcomes
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

Student loans and home ownership
The story that taking out student loans is a path to pauperdom rather than prosperity dominates the public conversation. One problem: its wrong. As we

Find the Michigan Future blogs that interest you most
If you read our blog you know that we frequently write about topics from our latest report “A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: