Michigan Department of Education

CALDER-R&R examines policies addressing teacher shortages and their impact on teachers, student learning, and equity. Two important perspectives undergird the Center's work. First is the understanding that teacher shortages are not a single phenomenon. Instead, they exist in specific subject areas (for example, science and mathematics), among teachers from specific backgrounds (for example, teachers from historically marginalized racial and ethnic backgrounds), in specific schools (for e...

This project will undertake crucial updates and enhancements to the Michigan SLDS (MSLDS) to ensure that the entire pipeline is modernized and best equipped to serve our education stakeholders.

The purpose of this project is to assess the implementation, impact, and cost of the Michigan "Read by Grade 3" law which is intended to increase early literacy outcomes for Michigan students.

The Education Development Center (EDC), Michigan Department of Education (MDE), and Michigan Virtual Schools (MVS) formed a partnership to evaluate the impact of a short online orientation course (called Strategies for Online Success or SOS) on students' engagement in and completion of full online courses offered by MVS. Using an experimental design, the project team examined the impact on student engagement and course completion of being assigned the SOS course for first-time online student...

Michigan has been collecting isolated snapshots of individual-level data on 1.7 million students three times a year since 2001 using the Single Record Student Database (SRSD). In fall 2002, the Center for Educational Performance and Information (CEPI) issued the first Unique Identification Codes (UICs) for students and has continued to work in partnership with local districts to maintain the UIC data.