Detroit Free Press

Could Detroit’s renaissance begin to extend past the downtown and Midtown areas? Community Ventures, a new worker retraining program, is trying to make that happen, and Elisabeth Gerber, who analyzed the program with a group of four Ford...

The New England Journal of Medicine published John Ayanian’s report on the first 100 days of the Healthy Michigan Plan, Michigan’s expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act. The plan is a good blueprint for other Republican-governed states...

The Detroit Free Press interviewed Brian Jacob about student cheating following the release of a new survey by the Josephson Institute of Ethics. The survey indicates that the percentage of high school students who say they have cheated in school...

The Detroit Free Press reported on a new study from the Michigan Consortium for Educational Research , of which the Ford School Education Policy Initiative is a member, assessing the impact of the Michigan Merit Curriculum. The study analyzed the...

Michigan significantly raised the bar for its Michigan Educational Assessment Program (MEAP) last year, and the first test results are in: many students and schools have a long way to go to meet the new standards, according to an article in the...

Elisabeth R. Gerber, Chris Miller (DDA director and economic development coordinator for the city of Adrian), and Daniel P. Gilmartin (CEO and executive director of the Michigan Municipal League) penned an op-ed for the Detroit Free Press called,...

Brian Jacob wrote an op-ed article in the Detroit Free Press about the challenges associated with new graduation requirements for Michigan high school students. He wrote, "educators and researchers should engage in a systematic, comprehensive...

Brian Jacob spoke to the Detroit Free Press about proposed legislation to pay Detroit kids for doing well in school. Many disagree about whether an incentivized program, based on research conducted by Harvard University's Roland Fryer, is right for...

In a recent interview, Detroit Free Press columnist Tom Walsh talked with Marina v.N. Whitman about her forthcoming memoir.Whitman, daughter of John von Neumann, a pioneering mathematician of the 20th century, earned her PhD in 1962 from Columbia...

Marina Whitman spoke to the Detroit Free Press about GM's new corporate culture. As described by Chief Executive Fritz Henderson, GM's new focus will be on "customers and vehicles, accountability, speed, and risk-taking." According to Whitman, "GM's...