Samuel Owusu

Alumni

Samuel Owusu

Data & Policy Fellow, Youth Policy Lab, University of Michigan

Samuel Owusu is a data & policy fellow at the Youth Policy Lab. 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 ...

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

Transitional kindergarten in Michigan: Impacts through elementary school and predictors of a lasting boost

Sep 29, 2021

Access to early education programs have been shown for decades to improve the educational prospects for children in kindergarten and beyond. A new type of early education program widespread in Michigan and California—transitional kindergarten (TK)—ha...

Transitional kindergarten in Michigan: Impacts through elementary school and predictors of a lasting boost

EPI Policy briefs

Understanding the Psychosocial Effects of the Flint Water Crisis on School-Age Children in Michigan

May 19, 2022

Sam Trejo, Gloria Yeomans-Maldonado, Brian Jacob, Samuel Owusu

In early 2016, the Flint Water Crisis captured national attention; major news outlets reported that the city’s tap water had been contaminated with lead since April of 2014. While Flint residents alerted officials about the changes to their drinking ...