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State & Hill

Data for good: Expanding college opportunity in Michigan

Dec 19, 2022
By Daniel Rivkin When the state of Michigan issued its COVID-19 stay at home order in March 2020, Youth Policy Lab (YPL) Data and Policy Fellow Ava Attari found herself in the middle of an ambitious state program. The thousands of workers who had...
Graduate in a cap and gown
News

Examining Detroit students' college pathways

May 26, 2021
Academic and non-academic barriers are preventing Detroit high school students from enrolling and succeeding in college. Detroit Students’ College Pathways and Outcomes, a policy brief released by the Youth Policy Lab (YPL) at the University of...
YPL report: Pre-COVID, more than half of Detroit students felt anxious or depressed, 1 in 4 considered suicide
In the Media

Regional education report a 'call to action'

Dec 13, 2019 The Detroit News
Consider these numbers: The four-year high school graduation rate for students in the city of Detroit is 69%, compared with 83% statewide and 85% nationally.The numbers for Motor City students have dropped by 1 percentage point since 2014, despite...
Detroit Regional Chamber State of Education Report Cover
Report

NAF Students in Detroit

May 30, 2021
Youth Policy Lab at the University of Michigan requested data access and completed the analysis included in this report. The data are structured and maintained by the MERI-Michigan Education Data Center (MEDC). MEDC data is modified for analysis...
Two students studying outdoor on laptops
Report

Detroit Student's College Pathways and Outcomes

May 10, 2021
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Stacey Brockman, Sophia Chong, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija, Robin Tepper Jacob
This policy brief reports findings from research partnerships between the Youth Policy Lab, the Detroit Regional Chamber, the Detroit Public Schools Community District (DPSCD), the Detroit College Action Network (DCAN), and MDRC. We describe the...
a young African American student reading a book
Report

MyVoice: Youth Perspectives on Barriers to College

December 20, 2019
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Robin Tepper Jacob, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija, A. Foster
While some overarching barriers to college access and success—including cost and academic preparation—are well documented in literature, the challenges individual students face are more nuanced. This policy brief uses data collected from the MyVoice...
a high school student walking between shelves in a library
Report

A Path from Access to Success: Interim Findings from the Detroit Promise Path Evaluation

April 23, 2019
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Alyssa Ratledge, Rebekah O’Donoghue, Dan Cullinan, Jasmina Camo-Biogradlija (Youth Policy Lab)
Postsecondary education is widely seen as a necessity in the modern economy, yet among low- and middle-income families, college enrollment rates are dismayingly low — and graduation rates are even lower. College Promise programs, which cover local...
Title: A Path from Access to Success

Evaluating the Detroit Promise Path

January 2019 - December 2022
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Robin Tepper Jacob
The Detroit Promise Path pilot is an add-on to the Detroit Promise scholarship program that is designed to improve student outcomes by incorporating evidence-based support components. The Lab was engaged by MDRC, the primary research organization evaluating this pilot, to provide supplemental, qualitative evaluation of the impact of this...
3 people talking at what looks like a university

AdviseMI Program

October 2018 - September 2021
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Brian Jacob
AdviseMI is a college advising program aiming to increase the number of high school students who enter and complete post-secondary education. The Lab evaluated the Michigan College Access Network (MCAN) AdviseMI program, examined the fidelity to the model, and assessed the impact on the college enrollment rates for high schools where advisors are...
People holding hand-written signs related to the AdviseMI program