The pandemic has illuminated the need for Michigan to change its education system, this former superintendent writes.
Michigan school opinions
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Opinion | Counting children in the pandemic
Local schools and school districts should continue to work with the widest range of community partners—faith-based institutions, social service agencies, law enforcement, and others—to ensure that every child in each community is receiving an education.
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Opinion | Michigan’s leaders can act now to mitigate learning losses
To ensure that Michigan’s vulnerable students and families receive the support they need and deserve, we urge Michigan leaders to invest immediately in the most effective, highest leverage research-based strategies to begin to address troubling inequities.
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Opinion | Michigan colleges fighting to survive — for students and communities
Channeling the grit of the students they serve, Michigan’s community colleges are fighting to stay open amid a pandemic that has upended postsecondary education.
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Opinion | Federal higher ed relief urgently needed for Michigan students
Federal funding is about to run out, and with them, a backbone of economic support for the state of Michigan.
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Opinion | What Lansing got right: working together to educate more in Michigan
Honoring essential workers with free tuition is good public policy.
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Opinion | Dear Betsy DeVos and Michigan lawmakers: Here's what educators need
Remote learning is not the ‘tragedy’ that is playing out. The real tragedy is the lack of national commitment to supporting public education and educators.
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Opinion | Education is failing in the coronavirus pandemic
COVID cases are on the rise again, and despite our best efforts, the current in-person models of opening and closing schools don’t seem sustainable long-term.
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Opinion | COVID-19 highlights Michigan's broken school funding model
The new school year began under an obsolete school funding approach that disregards the unique needs of students and threatens our state’s economic resurgence.
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Opinion | Revenue goals lurk behind decision to hold Big Ten college football games amid pandemic
Big Ten college football is set to begin Oct. 24. A professor of sport management at the University of Michigan addresses some benefits and potential drawbacks of playing football too soon.