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Professor Brian Jacob says Michigan student-teacher ratio is higher than reported estimations

Sep 28, 2018

As education in Michigan falls under ever greater scrutiny, one glaring issue seems to stand out: the state’s lopsided student-teacher ratio. One of the highest ratios in the nation, Ford School professor Brian Jacob believes the issue is even worse...

More harm than good? Professor Brian Jacob criticizes the continued turnover of accountability systems for Michigan schools

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"Class sizes in Michigan, the quiet crisis," new research by Education Policy Initiative

Sep 21, 2016

New research from the Education Policy Initiative at the University of Michigan's Ford School of Public Policy found that many Michigan K-12 students experience very large core classes—with 40 or more students—but that some students are at greater...

"Class sizes in Michigan, the quiet crisis," new research by Education Policy Initiative

EPI Policy briefs

Effects of COVID-19 on Early Childhood Education Centers

March 1, 2021

Christina Weiland, Paola Guerrero Rosada, Anne Taylor, Louisa Penfold, Catherine Snow, Jason Sachs, Meghan McCormick

This brief is part of an ongoing study that is tracking implementation of the Boston Universal Prekindergarten (UPK) expansion, including effects of the COVID-19 crisis on UPK community-based centers. We use administrative and interview data to...

Parent walking two children to school with masks on

EPI Policy briefs

Class Size in Michigan: Investigating the Risk of Being in Very Large Classes

September 1, 2016

Brian Jacob, Susan Dynarski, CJ Libassi, Rene Crespin

The number of students in a classroom has long concerned parents, teachers, and policymakers. This aspect of a student’s educational experience has always seemed to be an important marker of school quality, and a long line of research has confirmed...

Student paying attention to teacher in class

EPI Policy briefs

The Michigan Merit Curriculum and Teacher Compositional Change

October 1, 2012

Susan Dynarski, Brian Jacob, Kenneth Frank, Barbara Schneider

In the spring of 2006 the state of Michigan enacted the Michigan Merit Curriculum (MMC) with the intent to increase the rigor of student course-taking, improve student performance, and increase college matriculation rates. This policy brief focuses...

Education policy in the next Michigan: What the think tanks think

Sep 29, 2010 1:30:50

John Bebow of the Center for Michigan, Lynn Jondahl of the Michigan Prospect, Michael Van Beek of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy and Chuck Wilbur discuss Michigan educational policy in the wake of the 2010 elections and beyond.

Eric Hanushek: Will U.S. schools drag us down?

Mar 10, 2010 1:25:53

Eric Hanushek of the Hoover Institution talks about the societal and economic returns of long-term investment in schools, particularly problematic ones, as well as possible school reform policies that can help transform schools. March, 2010.