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Report From “Outsmarting The Robots”: Part 1

Report from “Outsmarting the Robots”: Part 1

  • December 6, 2019
  • Sarah Szurpicki
  • Blog, Feature, Talent
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On October 21, Michigan Future co-hosted a convening in downtown Grand Rapids for 60 community leaders called Outsmarting the Robots: Redesigning education from the classroom to the halls of Lansing. The goals of this half-day event were: To help catalyze…

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25-34 Year Old African Americans B.A. Earnings Premium

25-34 year old African Americans B.A. earnings premium

  • December 4, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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In a previous post we explored the huge B.A. earnings premium for 25-34 year olds. In this post I want to explore how well 25-34 year old African Americans with a four-year degree or more do in the labor market…

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We Support, But Are Disappointed In, Charter Schools

We support, but are disappointed in, charter schools

  • November 27, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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Reading Richard Whitmire's worth reading The B.A. Breakthrough reminded me why Michigan Future has been supportive of charter schools from their inception in Michigan more than a quarter of century ago. Largely because they provide an alternative to chronically failing…

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Updated B.A. Earnings Premium For 25-34 Year Olds

Updated B.A. earnings premium for 25-34 year olds

  • November 20, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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2018 work earnings data are now available from the Current Population Survey. What follows is an update of an earlier post now with 2018 data. The story we are told over and over again is for today’s students getting a…

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A Liberal Arts Degree Leads To A Good-paying Career

A liberal arts degree leads to a good-paying career

  • October 16, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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We are constantly besieged with messaging that a liberal arts degree is useless. Maybe even worse than useless: a path to being a pauper or something close. Stuck in low-paying work that leaves you unable to pay off the loans…

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Young Professionals Concentrating In Big Cities

Young professionals concentrating in big cities

  • October 9, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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More than a decade ago we identified four common characteristics of high-prosperity non-energy-driven states: Over concentrated in knowledge-based services which are the sectors of the economy both growing and high wageHigh proportion of adults with a four-year degree or moreEven…

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College Entrance Exams And College Admission

College entrance exams and college admission

  • September 25, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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Paul Tough's excellent new book The Years That Matter Most explores how college entrance exams––SAT and ACT––impact who gets admitted to college. He does it by comparing the impact of college entrance exams on both admissions and college success to…

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The Increasing Value Of A Four-year Degree

The increasing value of a four-year degree

  • September 4, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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We constantly hear that the value of a four-year degree is declining. Somehow conventional wisdom has it that since the end of the Great Recession college graduates are not enjoying the wage premium over those with less education than previous…

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Moving Away From Standardized Testing

Moving away from standardized testing

  • August 14, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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As readers of this bog know we believe Michigan needs to move away from standardized testing. Anytime we make that case, the first question we get is “what is the alternative?” In a column for Bloomberg entitled Testing Craze Is…

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The Economic Growth Lesson From Texas Ain’t What You Think

The economic growth lesson from Texas ain’t what you think

  • July 17, 2019
  • Lou Glazer
  • Blog, Talent
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In 2004 Michigan Future published a report on knowledge-based states having higher per capita income than manufacturing-based states. The data showed that the most prosperous states––other than states with lots of oil and natural gas––had four common characteristics: Over concentration…

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