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“The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom” – Isaac Asimov, American science fiction novelist. * Here’s a thorny one: Some Great Lakes shoreline property owners want ...
Michigan goes hard after student loan defaulters
Former college students in the eastern half of Michigan get hauled into federal court for defaulting on their student loans at 10 times the rate of the national average. That doesn’t mean more Michigan residents are stiffing ...
Half the investment on colleges means a full measure of trouble for Michigan
To grow Michigan’s economy, we need more skilled workers, an estimated 1 million two- and four-year college graduates are needed to fill the job vacancies by 2025. Employers all over our state are complaining they can’t find ...
Romney and a student walk into a coffee shop …
Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney spoke at Lansing Community College Tuesday, suggesting that “somewhere in a coffeehouse, a student, maybe here in Lansing, is sketching out an idea that will change our lives.” A block ...
Remediation: Higher ed’s expensive ‘bridge to nowhere’
More than a third of incoming college students in Michigan take high school-level classes on campus — essentially repeating material they should have learned before they got their diplomas. Those remedial classes may cost students, schools ...
See how your local schools do on college remediation
In more than 100 school districts across the state, more than half the graduates enrolling in public colleges take remedial courses – in essence repeating lessons that should have been learned in high school. Using the searchable ...
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State waits for Legislature to do its job on transit
What would be the goal of the RTA? Is the priority to design a rapid,
Not much above par on Michigan's scorecard
For a quick look at a state with a good "dashboard", read this piece a
Poverty rises even as economy turns
Since the 1960s 4 out of 5 manufacturing jobs have been lost to automa
Not much above par on Michigan's scorecard
Wait a minute here, Snyder and the Repugs gave $1.8 Billion to corpora
State waits for Legislature to do its job on transit
Thank you for calling out the legislature for dragging their feet on a