Four research projects conducted by affiliates of the Education Policy Initiative (EPI) at the University of Michigan received a total of nearly $10 million in new grants from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of...
The next phase of one of the largest and most comprehensive studies of early childhood education launches this summer with a $1.5 million grant from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education.
The grant, funded by the...
What are the skills that employers expect college graduates to bring to the job? A new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper from Ford School professor Kevin Stange and doctoral candidate Shawn Martin, along with two other colleagues,...
“Does investing in public education reduce crime in adulthood?” That is the essential question being examined by Brittany Vasquez, Jason Baron, and Joshua Hyman, recent and current PhD affiliates of the Education Policy Initiative (EPI). Their work...
What are the best ways to judge how instruction in pre-kindergarten classrooms is organized? Linkages between facets of classroom organization such as better organization of materials, smooth transitions, and clear routines are thought to make...
Please join Dean Elizabeth Moje of the Marsal Family School of Education, and Professors Kevin Stange and Christina Weiland, to discuss potential federal government funding cuts to IES, the Institute of Education Sciences. IES is the independent, non-partisan statistics, research, and evaluation arm of the U.S. Department of Education, which supports "improving instruction, student behavior, teacher learning, and school and system organization."
