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Crain's Managing Editor Michael Lee discusses stories from the April 12 issue of Crain's with Guy Gordon on WJR 760 AM.

Katharine Strunk, an education policy professor at Michigan State University, speaks with Crain's Senior Editor Chad Livengood about how low-performing schools in the Michigan Department of Education's Partnership Districts have struggled to turnaround because of high rates of teacher turnover — and what can be done to rectify the problem.

Before the pandemic, Bosch North America Senior Vice President of Human Resources Charlie Ackerman's team was busy building a ground-up apprenticeship program to grow talent within the industrial automation and automotive mobility tech supplier's ranks. For the past year, Ackerman's work has shifted toward a new reality: The majority of the company's 3,000 employees in Farmington Hills and Plymouth don't want to come back to the office five days a week after a year of working remotely during the coronavirus pandemic. That's caused Ackerman to devote his attention to a culture shift within Bosch where employee supervision is less about physically seeing them working and more about seeing results. Ackerman spoke with Crain's Senior Editor Chad Livengood for this interview.