Youth Policy Lab is working with the Skillman Foundation to identify a set of leading indicators to assess progress toward systems-level change in Detroit's educational ecosystem. Many of the long-term outcomes the Skillman Foundation seeks to influence—including postsecondary success, student well-being, and broader educational attainment—may take many years or decades to shift. As a result, the foundation seeks to understand which intermediate indicators (i.e., those that may change within approximately 5 years) are meaningfully connected to longer-term educational outcomes and therefore, ar...
