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How Michigan fails black college students
As a member of the Wayne State University Board of Governors, I have become very familiar with the various lists that organizations and publications compile
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Low college attainment is hurting Michigan, and it’s worse for black students at Michigan colleges
The Education Trust just published a report that shows the sizable gap between African-American and white completion rates at America’s colleges. Overall, 63.2 percent of
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College attainment drives state per capita income
We are constantly barraged with those claiming that low tax states have the best economies. And only slightly less so that getting a four year
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Standardized tests are harming our schools
The Michigan Department of Education recently came out with a new set of proposed accountability guidelines for Michigan schools, detailing how Michigan schools’ A through
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Cuban says the future is grim for workers who don’t learn how to out-human robots
NHL great Wayne Gretzky famously described the secret for his success on the ice as his ability to “skate to where the puck is going
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A True Detroit “Comeback” Means Leaving No One Behind
A recent post making the urbanist rounds asks, “Is Detroit Really Making a Comeback?” The authors’ research, which was just published in the journal Cities,