You’ve read the doom-and-gloom stories. But they fail to point out how well many Michigan students are doing.
Michigan school opinions
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Opinion | Michigan reform bills will hurt teacher education programs
Mitchell Robinson understands the desire to try things to improve Michigan schools. But he believes a package of bills addressing teacher education do more harm than good.
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Opinion | Don’t punish schools because Johnny can’t read. Invest in them instead.
A former Michigan Teacher of the Year reminds us that we’ve long worried about how well our children read, but we keep ignoring the real solutions
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Opinion | Want to improve literacy in Michigan? Restore school librarians
As the number of school librarians dropped, so did Michigan’s literacy rank. One school librarian doesn’t think that’s a coincidence.
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Opinion | It’s time for Michigan to invest in our kids
Early childhood is the time when a good education can make the most difference. Yet it’s where we invest the least. That needs to change.
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Opinion | Michigan Teacher of the Year: 5 ways to motivate students
Math teacher Luke Wilcox disputes the notion that it isn’t a teacher’s job to motivate students. He offers his top strategies for motivating students to care.
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Opinion: Clueless Betsy DeVos has defender-in-chief in Bill Schuette
Michigan’s attorney general continues to defend the charter schools champion, long after the rest of Michigan realized her policies were destructive.
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Opinion | A Valentine’s Day in which children actually come last
Our lack of concern for children begins far earlier than their exposure to gunfire by intruders with assault weapons.
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America is doing great job in creating low-skill workers
(Bridge archive photo/Sam Zomer) If you wanted to create a system that limits educational options and consigns the vast majority of poor American children to continue to live in poverty, just look around you. Whether you live in urban or rural America, the results of an educational design which cripples young learners who are […]
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Guest commentary: Keep world-class standards for Michigan learners
By Doug Rothwell/Business Leaders for Michigan Business Leaders for Michigan supports continued use of the Common Core State Standards in Michigan, writes Doug Rothwell. (courtesy image/used under Creative Commons license) This year, Michigan public schools began using the kind of high-quality content standards that our kids need to be competitive in the 21st century. Used […]