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Talent & Education
To prosper, Michigan must be a more educated place. Bridge will explore the challenges in education and identify policies and initiatives that address them.
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Getting Michigan students interested in STEM careers
While business and education leaders have sounded the trumpet on the need for more STEM graduates, the field can seem daunting to young students.
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State education board urges Legislature to transform how schools are funded
The board’s report cites the recent Bridge series, “The smartest kids in the nation,” which chronicled how other states saw gains when they targeted funds to the schools that needed help most.
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State schools chief: Michigan is 10 years behind leading states
Superintendent Mike Flanagan tells Bridge he is baffled by Michigan’s poor scores on national tests, has been slow to act on key reforms, and may have stayed in his job too long.
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Smartest kids: What Michigan schools can learn from leading states
Students from Minnesota to Florida are learning more. Is Michigan ready to do something about it?
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Smartest kids: Four school advocates raise their hands
We asked four fierce, very different education advocates how to improve Michigan schools. They hit on many reforms successfully used in leading states.
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National education leader: Business must lead fight in Michigan
Bridge sat down with Kati Haycock, founder of the Education Trust in Washington, D.C., to talk about reversing Michigan’s decline and what schools can do for low-income kids when parents aren’t in the game.
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Teachers need smaller classes, time to collaborate and meaningful training to make a difference
Gretchen Dziadosz is executive director of the Michigan Education Association, the state’s largest teachers’ union American education reforms of the past decade have not worked. Student achievement is not appreciably improving. Frequent high stakes testing allows less time to actually teach; teachers are evaluated on student test scores for things they were never told to […]
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Educate and train our teachers so they can help our students thrive
Eileen Lappin Weiser is a Republican member of the State Board of Education. Michigan needs a good teacher in every classroom. Research shows students with well-prepared teachers can gain four months or more additional academic growth each year, helping struggling students catch up. Students with poor teachers never catch up. Michigan’s $12,644 per pupil funding […]
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Third graders must have solid reading foundation to succeed later
Gary Naeyaert is executive director of the Great Lakes Education Project a nonprofit that advocates for quality school choice in Michigan. We’re having a vigorous debate in Michigan about how to address the fact that nearly one-third of our elementary school students are not proficient readers. Given the critical importance of early literacy to […]
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