Ford School professor Yusuf Neggers, who is affiliated with the Center for South Asian Studies discusses the youth-led protests in India amid back-to-back education scandals.
While Florida's reading, math scores look promising, Ford School professor Brian Jacob says National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores will provide the clearest view of Florida’s current academic progress.
Ford School professor Christina Weiland said that while the expansion of pre-K in Washington state, "does much more than just prepare a child for elementary school," the need is going to continue to increase.
As a major component of the Look to Michigan theme year of Life-Changing Education, U-M is launching an ED Talks initiative, featuring a newly named cohort of faculty presenters. They will engage with audiences and apply their expertise in ways that ...
Average math scores for 9- and 13-year-olds in the U.S. remain lower than they were 10 years ago. Ford School professor Brian Jacob says that part of the reason may be a lack of emphasis on standardized tests.
High school students participating in pipeline programs aimed at increasing diversity in STEM fields are more likely to enroll in—and graduate from—elite colleges with a related degree, according to a study by Sarah Cohodes.
Ford School professor Brian Jacob says that while holding back students may not have a positive long-term positive effect, it may be a useful incentive for school districts to perfom better.
Kohn Professor Christina Weiland talks about the WV school closure tracker to help policymakers, community members, and families make informed policy decisions.
The Regents of the University of Michigan approved promotions for Catherine Hausman, Katherine Michelmore, and Natasha Pilkauskas—all to professor of public policy, with tenure.
A popular device for restricting cell phone use in middle and high schools is effective at achieving that aim, leading to short-term disruption but ultimately positive effects on student well-being, new research finds.
Over spring break, annual policy study trips took undergrads to Brussels for the BA Global Engagement Seminar (above) and graduate students to Colombia for the International Policy in Practice seminar (below).
What’s the public school ROI? Should the state offer transitional kindergarten? Why do eligible college students leave financial aid on the table? The Education Policy Initiative's Michigan Education Data Center helps us understand what work–and why–...
Spelman students Toni Flemming, Joasia Jacobs, Olivia Liddie, and Morehouse students Donovan Correll, Chavous Langhorn, and Vincent Patterson will spend the summer advancing quantitative social science research skills, learning about careers that inv...
On April 10, the University of Michigan's Youth Policy Lab (YPL) convened a National School Cell Phone Policy Conference, inviting researchers, practitioners, and policymakers from Michigan and beyond to compare notes on a rapidly changing school pol...
Education Policy Initiative Predoctoral Fellow alum, Jordy Berne, won the Association for Education Finance and Policy's Outstanding Dissertation Award for his dissertation "Economic Analyses of Early Childhood Education"
Christina Weiland, co-director of U-M's Education Policy Initiative as well as a professor of education and public policy, discusses her team's research on early-learning curricula implementation across the country.
Professors Morela Hernandez, Mara Ostfeld, Megan Tompkins-Stange, and Justin Wolfers will be teaching courses for the Ford School's Online MPA program this fall.
New findings from the first national study of school cell phone policies finds that as bell-to-bell phone bans expand across the country, many educators report noticeable changes in how students interact with one another and decreased phone usage in ...
Ford School professor Sarah Cohodes discusses who has historically supported charter schools and why more and more families have moved to them since the pandemic
New evidence from the Ford School's Education Policy Initiative (EPI) shows absenteeism may hurt student's academics long before it is considered a chronic pattern. These findings, published in a January working paper, were recently featured in Educa...
