Tracking American deaths remains a messy business, even while millions of COVID stimulus dollars were sent to the deceased. A law signed by President Trump allows Social Security to collect death records from states and encourages states to submit...
Robert Dickinson (BA ’17) is submitting this field report from his summer 2016 internship at Haiti School Project in Port au Prince.Travelling always feels the same to me: the harsh recycled air on my flights; the long walkways and loudspeakers of...
Susan M. Collins will serve as an evaluating judge for a new competition that will award a $100 million grant to a single proposal designed to help solve a critical problem affecting people, places, or the planet. The John D. and Catherine T....
Michelle Rubin (MPP '17) submits this field report from her summer 2016 internship at Global Detroit.
I am just wrapping up and reflecting on my ten-week summer internship with Global Detroit. Global Detroit is a non-profit that aims to...
The Ford School and University of Michigan recently hosted the 10th biennial Graduate Horizons conference for American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Native Hawaiian students.View the photo album here.The four-day conference, held July 9 - 12 on the...
Dr. John J.H. (Joe) Schwarz spoke with Stateside, a Michigan Radio program, about “Governing or fundraising: What’s the duty of elected officials?”Schwarz, a former U.S. congressman (R-MI) and longtime policymaker and political actor, is a lecturer...
This week, Megan Tompkins-Stange is taking over Education Week’s “Rick Hess Straight Up” blog.Today’s post by Tompkins-Stange, “Silver bullets and solutionism in education philanthropy,” looks at the dramatic rise of outcome-oriented philanthropy in...
The Obama administration has announced plans for a $2 billion initiative to test new approaches to fight poverty in the U.S., citing Luke Shaefer and Kathryn Edin’s recently published book about Americans living on $2 a day.White House officials say...
After nine hours of driving down the Trans Amazonia highway, we reached our first stretch of paved road at the town of Apuí. This small town in the middle of the Brazilian Amazon Rainforest was our destination and point of research for the next...
That old trope about states serving as "laboratories of democracy" has become much more real for me this summer. I am working as a research intern in the energy program at the National Conference of State Legislatures—a national, bipartisan NGO that...
When Jeff Kessner (MPP/MUP '14) joined the Nonprofit and Public Management Center (NPM) last year, he knew he would learn a lot about how nonprofits work. But he didn't know that he would soon be on the board of one.
"I was a Board Fellow last...
Four Ford School students won the first NPM-CCC Mini Case Competition sponsored by the Nonprofit and Public Management Center (NPM) and the Ross School of Business Community Consulting Club at the University of Michigan.As outlined by competition...
The NPM Social Impact Challenge is an opportunity for graduate students to collaborate on solving real issues for an organization that focuses on social impact.Finalists will present their recommendations to a panel of expert judgesThe winning team will be awarded $2500Detroit Future City leadership will give keynote addressNetworking reception with hor d'oeurvesThis event is free and open to the public
The NPM Social Impact Challenge is an opportunity for graduate students to collaborate on solving real issues for an organization that focuses on social impact. The NPM Student Advisory Board invites graduate students with social sector interests from all schools to learn more about the 2014 Challenge and connect with other students. The event features small group activities focused on social change in Detroit, with the opportunity to find teammates.
Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy
Betty Ford Classroom
Abstract Over the past two decades, many urban school districts have restructured large, traditional high schools into smaller learning communities. The idea behind this movement is that small schools provide a more personalized learning environment that allows teachers to more effectively address the multi-faceted needs of disadvantaged students. Despite mixed evidence on the efficacy of such reforms in practice, Detroit and other high-poverty districts have pressed forward with the creation of smaller high schools.
