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In the Media

Online instruction not less expensive for colleges, says Stange

Oct 19, 2020

"It turns out it doesn't save [colleges] that much money, if any money, to shift online, holding constant the quality of what you are doing," said Stange. Watch Stange on CNBC consider "Is an online master's degree worth the...

In the Media

Dynarski argues "Colleges are fueling the pandemic in a classic market failure"

Oct 8, 2020

Financial pressures explain why many campuses have brought students back. But Ford School economist Susan Dynarski and Sarah Cohodes of Columbia University Teachers College say that there is a textbook solution: government...

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...

State & Hill

Catch up on Ford School faculty news in the Fall 2017 edition of State & Hill magazine

Dec 29, 2017

Tamar Mitts and Robert Axelrod participated in a trilateral workshop on the roots and trajectories of violent extremism. Mitts spoke about the radicalization of Islamic State supporters on social media; Axelrod about the strengths and weaknesses of...

Jacob: Effects of labor market information on community college students' choice of major

May 1, 2017

Rachel Baker (University of California, Irvine), Eric Bettinger (Stanford University), Brian Jacob, and Ioana Marinescu (University of Chicago) co-authored a working paper, "The Effect of Labor Market Information on Community College Students' Major...

State & Hill

Tackling educational disparities “in the classroom, on campus, and beyond”

Apr 22, 2016

Once, she was a first-generation college student from a working-class suburb of Boston. Now, she is an internationally renowned professor of education policy with the ear of the White House. So Susan Dynarski knows that education can be...

Former White House Deputy Director James Kvaal is next Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence

Mar 10, 2016

The Ford School community will welcome former Deputy Director of the White House Domestic Policy Council James Kvaal as a Towsley Foundation Policymaker in Residence this fall. The White House announced Mr. Kvaal's departure this morning,...

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...

EPI, Excellent Schools Detroit release K-12 scorecard

Jun 29, 2015

The 2015 Excellent Schools Detroit (ESD) K-12 Scorecard — which the Ford School’s Education Policy Initiative (EPI) helped develop — was released last week. More than 200 schools, including private and charter schools, were evaluated and assigned...

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The Atlantic cites Jacob's teacher tenure study

Jun 12, 2014

As a California judge rules that the state's teacher tenure system is disproportionately harmful to children from low-income families, Dana Goldstein explores the origins and impacts of the state's teacher tenure system—both positive and...

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Jacob receives Walton Family Foundation grant to study online learning

Nov 27, 2013

Brian Jacob, Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Education Policy and co-director of the Education Policy Initiative, has received a $200,000 grant from the Walton Family Foundation to study the effectiveness of online learning in the K-12...

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Our World Needs Pioneers

Nov 1, 2013

A single gift can make a difference, and gifts to the Ford School yield impressive returns.The Annenberg Professorship, established to honor the life and legacy of President Ford, enabled the Ford School to attract and retain Brian Jacob, a rising...

State & Hill

Brian A. Jacob helps city schools become data driven

Apr 22, 2013

In an era of shrinking public education budgets, school districts cannot afford to make the wrong decision when they hire a teacher or cut a program. To make sure they reach the right answers, administrators are turning to Annenberg Professor Brian...

Bringing the Actual Science of Reading to Policy and Practice

Nov 23, 2020 1:30:00

Come learn from four stakeholders renowned for their experience and expertise in improving children's literacy; two professors of education, an education reporter, and the head of one of Michigan's school administrator associations.

Bringing the Actual Science of Reading to Policy and Practice

Nov 19, 2020, 2:30-4:00 pm EST

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Measuring Liberal Arts: Creating an Index for Higher Education

Nov 13, 2020, 2:00-3:30 pm EST

The seminars feature path-breaking projects seeking to develop and refine measures of undergraduate education, and especially its liberal arts components, and to determine its impact on the present and future lives of students.

College and Beyond II: Liberal Arts & Life

The Value of Residential Liberal Arts Education: Lessons from COVID-19

Oct 23, 2020, 2:00-3:30 pm EDT

The Next Generation Undergraduate Success Measurement Project, funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, is an exploratory project to develop and implement a state-of-the-art measurement project to improve our understanding of the value of undergraduate educational experiences, and promote evidence-based models of undergraduate student success.

Bringing Early Education to Young Refugee Children in Countries Affected by Humanitarian Crisis

Sep 29, 2020, 4:00-5:30 pm EDT

Please join the Education Policy Initiative in welcoming Hirokazu Yoshikawa, the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU, and Co-Director (with J. Lawrence Aber) of the Global TIES for Children center at NYU, for a virtual education policy talk.

Julia Cagé: The Price of Democracy

Mar 27, 2020, 1:00-2:30 pm EDT

Michigan Union ~ Anderson Room

Due to COVID-19, this event has been canceled.