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Opinion | Schools and researchers must collaborate to help Detroit students
Detroit neighborhoods with higher rates of asthma have higher school absenteeism. One in five students switched schools during the year. Data can be a valuable tool when researchers are in touch with a city’s challenges.
Opinion | Gov. Whitmer’s education plan will help Michigan schools like mine
A middle school principal makes a pitch for Gretchen Whitmer’s plan for more school funding, and different ways of splitting up those dollars
Opinion | Michigan schools must stop ignoring gifted education
Eliminating gifted education programs has hurt individuals, and Michigan’s economy
Opinion | Michigan must fix school funding model for students to shine
As an immigrant and a legislator, Padma Kuppa writes that she knows the value of an education, and Michigan needs to invest more.
Opinion| Michigan schools need a fairer funding model for all students
One of the five candidates in the running to become the next Michigan State Superintendent explains why he backs a study calling for more education funding.
Opinion | Calm down, Michigan, the sky isn’t falling, nor is school funding
Michigan Sen. Dayna Polehanki, D-Livonia, penned a guest commentary questioning the Mackinac Center for Public Policy’s views on school funding. Here’s the Mackinac Center’s response.
Opinion | Don’t believe the hype – Michigan school funding is down, not up
Dayna Polehanki was a school teacher before becoming a state senator, and she argues that Republicans are being disingenuous when they say education funding is at an all-time high.
Opinion | No teacher shortage yet in Michigan, but the talent pipeline is leaking
Fewer college students are considering careers in teaching, and new teachers flee the profession at a high rate. Michigan needs to address those issues.
Opinion | Maryland invests in schools. Michigan doesn’t. Maryland thrives.
Brad Lyman grew up in public schools in Michigan and taught in schools in Maryland. One state invested in its children, and one didn’t.
Opinion | College students shouldn’t have to choose between tuition and food
Students across Michigan now rely on campus food pantries. Worrying about your next meal is not what college is supposed to be about.
Opinion | Michigan’s next governor must lead, not follow special interests
The next governor has an opportunity – and a responsibility – to address problems that have festered for decades in our polarized politics
Opinion | Michigan needs more post-high school education, says state superintendent
More high school grads are earning degrees and certificates, but we’re still below the national average.
Opinion | Michigan is in the midst of a literacy crisis
Our children can’t succeed if they can’t read. It’s time we do something about it.
Opinion | Charter schools have done more harm than good in Michigan.
An MSU education professor bemoans the influence of charter school operators in Michigan. The direction of public education is a battle worth having.
Opinion | No mystery why Michigan professionals don’t go into education
Little pay and no respect aren’t good selling points for professionals who could teach college courses, exposing students to the real world.
Michigan’s top teacher on Betsy DeVos, school shootings and testing
Luke Wilcox isn’t shy about sharing his opinions, with Bridge Magazine or the U.S. Secretary of Education
What Michigan schools can learn from craft beer
To turn around Michigan schools, stop trying to produce Budweiser, and brew more Oberon. That’s the TED Talk message (without the actual alcohol) of Michigan’s Teacher of the Year.
Opinion | Demand that candidates explain their plan for Michigan schools
Don’t let politicians get away with generic statements about improving schools, says MSU professor Jack Smith.
Opinion | Take a breath: Michigan schools’ tests scores aren’t as bad as you think
You’ve read the doom-and-gloom stories. But they fail to point out how well many Michigan students are doing.
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.