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In the Media

Sensible Explainer: Susan Dynarski

Dec 13, 2015 The Chronicle

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Brian Jacob on harnessing the value of ‘failure’ in education research for Brookings' Evidence Speaks

Dec 10, 2015

In Harnessing the value of ‘failure,’ Brian Jacob describes the high “failure rate” in educational intervention research trials and what can be done to learn more from null results. Jacob’s piece appears in Evidence Speaks, a weekly publication of...

Holiday parties and skits, it’s all part of the Ford School experience

Dec 10, 2015

No one really knows when the Ford School put on its first holiday skit-fest, but the tradition goes back at least 23 years. In 1992, IPPS News reported on the latest faculty skit attempt (clearly not the first) with this review:“Jim Levinsohn, Gary...

State & Hill

Fall 2015 State & Hill magazine, “Motor City Remix, an iconic American city races forward”

Dec 10, 2015

The fall 2015 issue of State & Hill magazine was mailed to alumni and friends of the Ford School on November 18, 2015. This edition of the magazine, titled “Motor City Remix,” highlighted stories about some of the work Ford School faculty,...

"Responding to budget surplus vs. deficit," reviews citizen, leader preferences

Dec 10, 2015

As the Michigan economy improves, some local leaders are facing the welcome task of deciding how to allocate funds from budget surpluses. A University of Michigan Ford School survey, "Responding to budget surplus vs. deficit: the preferences of...

State & Hill

Soundbites, overheard @ Ford School events

Dec 9, 2015

Policy Talks @ the Ford School “When Social Security was started, the ratio of retirees to working people was one to 15 or something like that. Over the next five or ten years, we’ll go to one retiree for every two folks working. That clearly...

State & Hill

Latest CLOSUP survey explores Michigan public safety

Dec 9, 2015

I had to really drum up interest a decade ago; nobody gave a rip,” says David Thacher of his course, “Thinking about Crime.” These days, there’s a lot more interest in public safety—at the Ford School and elsewhere. Reflecting those concerns, the...

Marina v.N. Whitman pens Freep op-ed on the “cot club” and legislative paralysis

Dec 8, 2015

Marina von Neumann Whitman’s opinion piece, “The House’s cot club and America’s great divide,” was published by the Detroit Free Press on December 4.The piece describes an increasingly common practice among legislators of using their DC offices to...

State & Hill

First Weston Education Policy Intern tackles NYC education reform

Dec 8, 2015

Matthew Mellon (MPP/MPH ’16), the first Ford School student to receive support from the recently established Margaret E. Weston Endowment for Education Policy, found the perfect internship. He interned for the city with the largest public school...

State & Hill

DiNardo’s ‘defense against the dark arts’ of econometrics

Dec 7, 2015

John DiNardo (AB ’83, MPP ’84) has read J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter series in every language he can comprehend—English, Italian, and French—so perhaps it’s not surprising that when DiNardo had to take time off from teaching to be treated for acute...

State & Hill

Class notes

Dec 4, 2015

Bev Godwin (MPP ’82) recently began a new job as senior advisor in the U.S. Department of State. After 31 years at U-M (two as an MPP student; the rest as a professor of policy, economics, information, and computer science; and the last five as...

State & Hill

The last word with Mahima Mahadevan (MPP '11), State & Hill Detroit issue

Dec 4, 2015

A research manager at the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative (EPI), Mahima S. Mahadevan (MPP ‘11) is leading the implementation of a major study on Michigan’s charter schools. Preliminary findings will be released in early 2016. Mahima has...

State & Hill

Discourse, Ford School faculty in the news roundup from fall 2015 State & Hill magazine

Dec 4, 2015

“The focus and moral certainty that have fueled the Black Lives Matter movement have opened a rare window of opportunity for real and lasting change.” David Thacher, advocating for a reformed version of Broken Windows policing in U.S. cities,...

Catch up on faculty news with the Ford School's fall 2015 roundup

Dec 4, 2015

This spring, Robert Axelrod was one of ten distinguished honorary degree recipients at Harvard’s 364th commencement ceremony. The Carnegie Corporation of New York has awarded John Ciorciari its prestigious Andrew Carnegie Fellowship to examine...

"$2.00 a Day" makes New York Times' list of 100 Notable Books of 2015

Dec 4, 2015

Published on September 1, 2015, $2.00 a Day, Living on Almost Nothing in America, a book by Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin, has drawn audiences across the nation. The book, which illuminates extreme poverty in the U.S., has been positively reviewed...

News

Alum Steve Tobocman of Global Detroit, disrupting urban poverty, one new American at a time

Dec 4, 2015

Steve Tobocman (MPP/JD '97) is the director of Global Detroit, a non-profit that seeks to revitalize Michigan’s economy by making the region more attractive and welcoming to immigrants, international students, businesses, and investors. He speaks...

In the Media

Climate Change And The 2016 Presidential Race

Dec 3, 2015 Wisconsin Public Radio

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Follow observations of Ford School students at UN’s 2015 Climate Change Conference

Dec 3, 2015

The Ford School's Matthew Bishop (MPP ’16) and Benjamin Morse (MPP/MS ‘17) are among 10 University of Michigan students and faculty members serving as official observers of the United Nations’ 2015 Climate Change Conference in Paris.The conference,...

Seefeldt shares new research on poor single motherhood in The Atlantic

Dec 3, 2015

According to “How Poor Single Moms Survive,” an article by Alana Semuels for The Atlantic, the number of single-parent households in the US has soared since 1960, just as the amount of government assistance available to these largely female-headed...

State & Hill

Renewing and strengthening the Ford School's long-term ties to China

Dec 3, 2015

Ann Lin on the Ford School's U.S.-China policy course and trip Each year, the University of Michigan offers dozens of courses focused on specific countries or geographic regions. Usually, these courses attract students with an ongoing interest in...

Brian Jacob to use behavioral nudges to encourage teacher retention at high-needs MI schools

Dec 2, 2015

Brian Jacob, professor of economics, education and public policy at the University of Michigan, was awarded a $486,501 grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to study the relationship between behavioral nudges and intrinsic motivation.Jacob,...

News

Post-game analysis: Coach Beilein and Ray Batra on new fund

Dec 2, 2015

Coach Beilein and his family have made a series of gifts to establish the Beilein Family Fund for BA students like their son Andy, who earned his bachelor's in public policy at the Ford School in 2012. Here’s Coach B and Ray Batra, the first student...

Publication

Adherence to clinical preventive services guidelines: Population-based online RCT

Dec 1, 2015

A research article by W. Douglas Evans, Paula M. Lantz, Katherine Mead, Carmen Alvarez, and Jeremy Snider, "Adherence to clinical preventive services guidelines: Population-based online randomized trial," was published in the December 2015 edition...

State & Hill

My Brother's Keeper Detroit, "We all play a role," says Eboni Wells (MPP '13)

Dec 1, 2015

It’s Eboni Wells’ (MPP ’13) penultimate day at the Skillman Foundation, located on Detroit’s bright riverfront. She’s tying up a two-year public policy fellowship that, for the last eight months, has tasked her with supporting Detroit’s response to...

Teens and parents agree: Electronic cigarettes need restrictions

Nov 30, 2015

As electronic cigarette use skyrockets among youth, even teens agree with parents that what’s known as “vaping” needs stricter rules.More than three fourths of both teens and adults say e-cigarettes should be restricted in public spaces, come with...

News

Catherine Hausman analyzes the challenges faced by nuclear power for IMF publication

Nov 30, 2015

In the International Monetary Fund’s December 2015 issue of Finance and Development, Catherine Hausman co-authors “The Power of the Atom” with Lucas Davis. The article explores how the global presence of nuclear power has changed since its...

State & Hill

Reclaimed pine and river views: Mark Wallace is putting old Detroit to its highest and best use

Nov 30, 2015

A couple years ago, Mark Wallace (MPP ’04) built two electric guitars. A long-time musician, he had recently taken up woodworking and thought he might give guitar-making a try. He built two, he says, because he was afraid that one might not work...

In the Media

Does America's Next President Really Hate Wall Street?

Nov 29, 2015 TheStreet

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State & Hill

Laying the foundation, Leah Ouellet (AB '13) and 17 Detroit teens build a Malawi school

Nov 27, 2015

As the plane hummed on the runway at Detroit Metro Airport, 17 anxious teenagers fidgeted in their seats, peering through the drawn window shades. “Are we in the air yet?” It was the third time Leah Ouellet (AB ‘13) had heard the same...

State & Hill

In the mayor's office and after: Serving, staying, and making a home in Detroit

Nov 26, 2015

Serving, staying, and making a home in the City of Detroit Jennifer Niggemeier was surprised when she attended the fifth annual Worldwide Ford School Spirit Day gathering in Detroit this summer. “When we first did a Detroit event in 2011, there...

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