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. The dominant narrative today seems to be the opposite – that we need to tie…
The most important recommendation in our new state policy agenda is that we change the mission of state economic policy to a rising household income for all. A Michigan with a broad middle class where wages and benefits allows…
Late last year, Stanford economist Raj Chetty and colleagues published an important set of data that measured just how many Americans achieve the American dream. They define the American dream as the ideal that a child will earn more money,…
I’m generally not a fan of measuring a college’s value by the incomes of their graduates. If a high proportion of a school’s alumni enter a lower-paid field like social work, I don’t think this should count against the college.…
As I feel a need to do every time I write about charter schools, Michigan Future is a long time supporter of charters and more broadly education choice. Still are. But we have been disappointed in the results of charters…
Insightful Jared Bernstein post on the David Leonhardt's "College for the Masses" column. (Bernstein is a Senior Fellow at the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.) Bernstein generally agrees with Leonhardt's central point that a four year degree or more…
I considered making this a one sentence post. Read this David Leonhardt article for the New York Times entitled College for the Masses. Its a must read. So if you have limited time, read the Leonhardt article rather than what…
I support President Obama's proposal to make community college tuition free for those students who stay on track academically. Expanding education opportunity and outcomes is an essential component of raising the standard of living of all Americans. That said taking…
MLive reports that Governor Snyder in an Ann Arbor presentation complained about college tuition being too high. The article quotes the Governor: "Tuition has gone up a lot and there are two or three things that we need to do. One…
Michigan Future's work started with the question “where do we want to go from here?” Our answer: a high-prosperity Michigan – a place with a per capita income consistently above the national average in both national economic expansions and contractions.…