Sam Owusu

Alumni

Samuel Owusu

Alumni

Samuel Owusu is originally from Chicago, IL. Samuel was a research assistant with the Education Policy Initiative and graduated with a Masters in Public Policy. He is also a graduate of Davidson College in North Carolina where he majored in Internat...

News

The education journey of EPI's Sam Owusu

Jun 19, 2023

Research analyst Sam Owusu recently worked on a project, which surveyed every school district in the state of Michigan about the availability of early childhood programs. It is a part of his job as a research analyst at the Education Policy Initiativ...

The education journey of EPI's Sam Owusu

Publication

Michigan transitional kindergarten widely available, supported by administrators and parents

Jan 26, 2023

Expanding access to high-quality early education has been a bipartisan goal of Michigan policymakers for at least a decade. New findings by the University of Michigan Education Policy Initiative provide the first systematic description of transiti...

Transitional kindergarten programs expand early education access, boost academic gain

Publication

EPI studies Flint water crisis effects on academic outcomes

May 19, 2022

Math achievement for school-age children in Flint decreased and the proportion of children with special needs increased as a result of the Michigan city's water crisis during 2014-16, according to a new University of Michigan study. Those are the m...

EPI examines education impacts of the Flint Water Crisis

EPI Policy briefs

Michigan Transitional Kindergarten: A First Look at Program Reach and Features

January 1, 2023

Anna Shapiro, Jordy Berne, Katia Cordoba Garcia, Brian Jacob, Tareena Musaddiq, Samuel Owusu, Christina Weiland

Thousands of young Michigan children attend state-funded transitional kindergarten (TK) programs. These programs are intended to provide an additional year of early education before children begin traditional kindergarten. School districts in Michiga...

Teacher with children in kindergarten classroom