“Science is the knowledge of consequences, and dependence of one fact upon another” — Thomas Hobbes, 17th century English philosopher. *Remember when Michigan was talking so much about the need to increase the number of college degrees among its populace? And now: Jackson Community College saw a 12 percent enrollment decline for its winter (current) […]
Detroit Public Schools
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Back to school. And stay there.
My boss, Bridge editor Derek Melot, doesn’t have children. I get the idea if he did, they’d have run away to grandma’s by now, fleeing their father’s firmly held belief that what ails children is very simple: Not enough schoolin’. “If you want to get better at something, do you spend less time at it?” […]
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Renaissance snares Detroit championships
Detroit’s Renaissance High School opened its new location in 2005, an airy, light-filled building designed to house the district’s brightest and most ambitious students. Applicants must pass a test to be admitted and maintain a 2.5 grade-point average, and be admitted to a college or university to graduate. Standards are high at Renaissance, and are […]
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Challenge accepted: Detroit students soar to titles
Bates Academy and Davison Elementary-Middle are just two of approximately 90 Detroit Public Schools campuses that serve children in elementary and middle grades. These two campuses, though, accounted for victories in five of six available categories in Bridge Magazine’s Academic City Championships. Bates Academy scored highest in the 2010-11 school year in 8th Grade Science, […]
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See Detroit's champs and full district results
To determine Academic City Champions for the 2010-11 school year, Bridge Magazine collected and analyzed data for each campus in the Detroit Public Schools. All were judged by academic results relevant to their grade levels (testing at the fourth and eighth grades, ACT results and high school graduation rates for high-school grades). The results of […]
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Passion still drives Detroit educators
Half of new teachers in urban school districts leave within the first three years, reports the advocacy group Urban Teacher Residency United. Much can be learned by understanding what pushes professionals out of urban classrooms. But what about the other half — the 50 percent who stay? Why do they remain in beleaguered urban school […]
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How do you hold on to the hipsters?
The biggest danger to the revitalization of Detroit’s Midtown — and, by extension, the city itself — doesn’t pack a gun or wield foreclosure papers. He wears a backpack and chews bubble gum. Children — and their parents’ perceptions about local schools — will determine whether the young professionals now streaming into Midtown stay in […]
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