Unlikely state is tops in tech job hiring — from TechNewsDaily by Samantha Murphy
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A report by the TechAmerica Foundation revealed that Michigan added the most technology jobs last year, bringing in 2,700 high-tech jobs between 2009 and 2010, a nearly 2 percent increase from the year before. Michigan now boasts 155,100 technology employees.
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An A to Z list of Michigan colleges and universities — from mlive.com
Web site lets you compare Michigan high schools’ success — Detroit Free Press by Lori Higgins
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Custer helped Calvin College outfit a new science lab;
above picture features one of the possible implementations of Steelcase’s Media:Scape product
Clintondale High cuts freshman failure rates with flipped classes — fromConverge.com by Tanya Roscorla (Detroit, MI, USA)
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In an urban school outside Detroit, more than half of freshmen failed English in fall 2009.
Along with failing classes, freshmen students got in trouble. A lot. That semester, principals at Clintondale High School dealt with 736 discipline cases for 165 students.
A year later, the scene changed.
Of 165 freshmen, only 19 percent failed English. Math classes saw similar results, going from 44 to 13 percent. And both science and social studies failure rates dropped too.
$3 billion slated for Michigan start-ups through Pure Michigan Business Connect — from metromodemedia.com
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The recently announced Pure Michigan Business Connect initiative promises to leverage about $3 billion in seed capital and new revenue streams for Michigan-based start-ups, thanks to some local heavy hitters stepping up to the plate.
