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Don’t let unfounded privacy concerns keep you away from the census
Soon, census takers will be spreading out across Detroit neighborhoods, knocking on doors to get the answers to the questions that people were either too reticent or too apathetic to provide on the mail-in questionnaire. While people have always had a host of reasons...
2009 MEAP: Public school reading scores outshine the charters
It has been said that a child learns to read up until third grade, after which he/she reads to learn. The ability to read at an early age is critical for academic success across all subjects in the years to come. The State of Michigan recently released results from...
Oakland County’s future isn’t just black and white
Recently, the Detroit News reported that people were pouring out of Wayne County faster than our of any other county in the United States. Since 2000, the county has lost 135,513 people—a bit more than 23,000 of them left last year alone. The same article reported...
Men’s memories? Forget about it…
Now that I'm at midlife, sometimes my wife thinks I'm losing my mind. New research from the Centre for Longitudinal Studies suggests that she might be right--at age 50, a woman’s memory is better than a man’s. A survey of more than 9,600 middle-aged British men and...
A Poll With Promise: What one study says about our hope for the future
Detroit has become the poster-child for a 21st Century, post-industrial region searching for a future. We are under the microscopes of the media, the federal government, the academic and research communities, national and local foundations, and ordinary residents. ...
RIGHT START: MATERNAL AND INFANT WELL-BEING IN DETROIT
When it comes to a healthy start for all children in Detroit, I don't want to talk about teens or unwed mothers. I want to talk about babies starting out life with a real disadvantage--and what we're going to do about it. This month, Data Driven Detroit released a...
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