We provided participants in our education redesign conference, Outsmarting the Robots with a list of recommended reading, podcast and video. We wanted to share those recommendations more broadly. The list was assembled to include media we found interesting about the…
Another round of the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA) exam results was recently released, allowing researchers to compare education systems around the world. The PISA matters because unlike the majority of standardized tests, it asks students to think critically,…
At Michigan Future we spend a lot of time talking about how we can prepare Michigan students – all Michigan students – for the 21st century economy. This is an economy in which the returns to “highly-skilled” workers – who…
Last week, my colleague Sarah Szurpicki wrote about how school choice policies in Michigan have led to further racial segregation in Michigan schools. This is obviously not good, as racially integrated classrooms produce all sorts of pro-social benefits. And to…
Always too much good stuff that I can't find time or space to write about. Here are links to three reports/articles I found worth reading. The Harvard Graduate School of Education released an important study called Pathways to Prosperity which…
As bad as the current results are from our entire k-12 education system, I'm optimistic that we can get big gains in student achievement. My optimism is based on a decade of progress made by schools here and around the…