Talent & Education

A pre-K program supported by the Kellogg Foundation is getting 3- and 4-year-olds ready to start kindergarten. Expansion across Michigan would have a steep price tag, but high returns.

The state is a pioneer in state-funded early education for 4-year-olds. It’s now reaping the benefits.

Michigan schools continue to trail most states in academic achievement, floundering in the bottom third of all states, according to the national NAEP test.

A few steps forward, and several back, as Michigan struggles to revive its schools

Funding cuts have left 500 schools without physical education. Use this database to see if your school has a gym teacher.

Experts in Grand Rapids offer potential answers for a troubled public school system at the “Michigan Solutions Summit: An Educated Michigan,” put on by The Center For Michigan/Bridge Magazine and the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce. 

Education experts from Massachusetts, Tennessee and across Michigan gathered Thursday in Detroit to plot solutions to Michigan’s public school malaise.

Michigan leaders love to write about our failing education system. Changes, though, are proving tougher.

If you were to lay the pages of these voluminous studies end to end, we’d question your life choices. Bridge offers instead this quickie version of the reports’ findings on how best to reform schools.

Leading states have figured out a way for education, business and political leaders to work together to improve schools. A new report calls for that same cooperation in Michigan