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Holding management accountable for school results
One of the main lessons we learned from our Michigan Future Schools initiative is, contrary to conventional wisdom, the core characteristic of pre K-12 schools
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Finally rising household incomes
2015 turns out to be the year that a growing economy finally delivered rising incomes for low and middle income Americans and Michiganders. Median household income
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Why a liberal arts degree holds value in the second machine age
I recently caught up with an old friend whose daughter graduated from high school this year. My friend’s pride in her high-achieving child was obvious,
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$5.5 billion reasons Michigan should stop short-changing its cities
According to a 2016 Great Lakes Economic Consulting report entitled Michigan’s Great Disinvestment, 11 Michigan cities, one township, one county, and five school districts are in
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Successful cities aren’t like the suburbs
Insightful L.A. Times op ed by Mark Vallianatos and Mott Smith entitled L.A. isn’t a suburb. We need to stop planning it like one. The three core characteristics of
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Developing our first state policy agenda
UPDATE: We released our report: A Path to Good-paying Careers for all Michiganders: A 21st Century state policy agenda Click here to read it: https://www.michiganfuture.org/report-path-good-paying-careers-michiganders-21st-century-state-policy-agenda/ As