Sarah Winchell Lenhoff and Ben Pogodzinski at Wayne State University have been awarded a $198,500 grant from the Skillman Foundation to support the Improvement Partnership. The Improvement Partnership is a research-practice partnership between WSU's College of Education and Detroit Public Schools Community District that will produce policy-relevant research to inform educational improvement in Detroit. During the 2018-19 school year, the Partnership will produce four research reports on pressing issues of policy: student mobility, chronic absenteeism, open enrollment, and implementation of school-based strategies to reduce absenteeism.