Higher Education Calamity
Originally published: September 21, 2012 It is a subject few want to address but may be the next big crisis facing Governor Snyder’s...
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Are Our Schools Preparing For ...
By Tom Watkins – “Everything we teach should be different from machines” – Jack Ma, co-founder and former executive chairman of...
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By Tom Watkins – Michigan’s system of education has been in a death spiral now going on two decades from a deadly series of...
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By Tom Watkins – Michigan’s official state motto is: “Si Quæris PeninsulamAmœnam Circumspice”– “If you...
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By Tom Watkins – A crisis is a terrible thing to waste. Where is the sense of urgency? If it were your children in the Benton...
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By Tom Watkins – WHACK! My football coaches hand smacking the side of my helmet, imploring, no, demanding that I get back in...
read moreLast Chance to Fix Public Educ...
By Tom Watkins – It is past time for the powers that be to come together to address the systemic and structural flaws facing...
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By Tom Watkins – June 4th, 2019 marks a sad and tragic 30th anniversary. Shots were heard around the world on June 4, 1989 when...
read moreQuality Education; Changing St...
By Tom Watkins – There are exceptional educators, teachers, support personnel adding value and making a difference in a...
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By Tom Watkins – The level of hatred and evil is intensifying here at home and around the globe. Ugliness and hatred was on...
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By Tom Watkins – The Michigan Political Leadership Program (MPLP) at Michigan State University is a bi-partisan program that...
read morePretending To Fix Problems
By Tom Watkins – Michigan will have a new governor come 2019. Gretchen Whitmer is our governor-elect. Major problems await her....
read moreWhat Happened to America?
By Tom Watkins – I have been out of the country and traveling throughout China for the past two months. Making multiple trips...
read moreUS and China Partner to Create...
By Tom Watkins – China has become the largest source of foreign students studying in the U.S. The demand for high quality...
read moreYour Tax Dollars At Work: Addi...
By Tom Watkins – “MORC” or the Macomb-Oakland Regional Center, is perhaps known to more people around the globe than it is to...
read moreAn Insidious Disease
By Tom Watkins – Anthony Bourdain and Kate Spade have taken their own lives over the last couple of weeks. Sadly there are...
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By Tom Watkins – The Mackinac Policy Conference just ended. The annual event sponsored by the Detroit Regional...
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Tom Watkins – The passing of Brian Whiston, Michigan’s State Superintendent of Public Education, at the relatively youthful age...
read moreFrom the Cradle to the Grave
Tom Watkins – It is certainly a welcome sign when Business Leaders for Michigan, the state’s business roundtable composed of...
read moreIn Search of a Psychiatric Bed...
Tom Watkins – It is true. I am quoted in the article below as saying by noted Detroit-area columnist, Jack Lessenberry,...
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