Detroit neighborhoods with higher rates of asthma have higher school absenteeism. One in five students switched schools during the year. Data can be a valuable tool when researchers are in touch with a city’s challenges.
Sarah Winchell Lenhoff
A guest author for Bridge Magazine.
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Yes, Michigan’s schools are failing. But don’t blame it on parents.
The author takes a State Board of Education member to task for denying that our public schools are in crisis, and cites three policy changes that can boost learning in Michigan.
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Supporting Michigan’s teachers and students
Sarah Lenhoff is director of policy and research at Education Trust-Midwest in Royal Oak. Michigan’s students have lost substantial ground over the last decade. Michigan has among the worst achievement gaps in the nation, and our state is not keeping up with the rest of the country – in achievement or improvement – according […]
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Michigan needs ‘master teachers’ who exhibit excellence, not mediocrity
Amber Arellano is the executive director at the Education Trust-Midwest, a non-partisan research and advocacy group working to raise achievement for all Michigan students. Imagine you are a Michigan public high school math teacher. A 15-year veteran, for years your students have learned nearly twice as much as students in your colleagues’ classrooms across […]