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What do you get when you combine Detroit Public Schools, the Kresge Foundation and the University of Michigan?

Answer: A place called Hope.

Nearly two years after Detroit's Marygrove College faced financial collapse¹, the tiny school is opening a new chapter, thanks to some of the region's biggest players. And the Detroit Public Schools Community District gets a chance to prove its mettle² under newleadership.

Marygrove's 53-acre campus is poised³ to become what organizers are calling a "cradle-to-career" educational complex. It'll host an Early Childhood Center built from the ground up, thanks to a portion of Kresge's $50 million.

It'll contain two traditional public schools operated by the city's district – one K-through-eighth grade, the other a high school. It'll house a "residency" program for aspiring⁴ teachers run by U-of-M's School of Education, and patterned after its medical school, to teach teachers how to teach before deploying⁵ them in Detroit's schools.

And Marygrove will continue to offer its graduate programs and professional developmentprograms.

The goal is to use innovative⁶ education to redevelop a corner of the community, far from the big money changing the face of downtown and Midtown. This could be huge, folks.

Kresge's bringing the dough⁷. U of M is bringing the expertise⁸, reputation and what President Mark Schlissel calls "teamwork in service of the public." And the public schools get support from heavy hitters who just want education to improve in Detroit, because that's how communities improve … and rebuild.

The city's neighborhoods are in play, finally.

Three months ago, Ford⁹ Motor confirmed plans to renovate¹⁰ Corktown's dilapidated Michigan Central Depot¹¹ into its center for mobility¹² and self-driving vehicles. Now Marygrove is pinning its neighborhood revival¹³ on its so-called "P-20 Partnership¹⁴."

It's the neighborhoods' turn. Community reinvention is politically potent¹⁵ in a city that struggled for decades to provide basic services. With billions of dollars pouring intodowntown and Midtown, targeting neighborhoods is the next obvious step in the city's revitalization.

Reinvesting in the core helps bolster¹⁶ tax base, fuel economic activity and create tax-paying jobs. Reinvesting in neighborhoods and improving traditional public education strengthens community, and gives Detroiters a reason to stay.

"What this town needs to be shown again and again is you can take big ideas and make them real," said Kresge CEO Rip Rapson says. "So many people are waiting to see efforts like this fail."

Unfortunately that's true. They're the people who doubt the city's revival can maintain traction¹⁷, who predict the new school board and superintendent¹⁸ will fail like all the others, who don't understand that leadership today is different from its predecessors¹⁹.

I'd say the mounting evidence proves them more wrong than right.

Look around. Bankruptcy's managed. Cultural groups like the DIA and the symphony saved. City Hall focused more on what it can improve than what it should control. School board members who unanimously back their new superintendent's plan to join the Marygrove partnership.

And it's happening in Detroit.

Daniel Howes is a columnist²⁰ at The Detroit News. Views expressed in his essays are his own and do not necessarily reflect those of Michigan Radio, its management or the station licensee, The University of Michigan.

1 collapse   

vi.累倒；昏倒；倒塌；塌陷

参考例句：

• The country's economy is on the verge of collapse.国家的经济已到了崩溃的边缘。
• The engineer made a complete diagnosis of the bridge's collapse.工程师对桥的倒塌做了一次彻底的调查分析。

2 mettle   

n.勇气，精神

参考例句：

• When the seas are in turmoil,heroes are on their mettle.沧海横流，方显出英雄本色。
• Each and every one of these soldiers has proved his mettle.这些战士个个都是好样的。

3 poised   

a.摆好姿势不动的

参考例句：

• The hawk poised in mid-air ready to swoop. 老鹰在半空中盘旋，准备俯冲。
• Tina was tense, her hand poised over the telephone. 蒂娜心情紧张，手悬在电话机上。

4 aspiring   

adj.有志气的；有抱负的；高耸的v.渴望；追求

参考例句：

• Aspiring musicians need hours of practice every day. 想当音乐家就要每天练许多小时。
• He came from an aspiring working-class background. 他出身于有抱负的工人阶级家庭。 来自辞典例句

5 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

6 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。

7 dough   

n.生面团；钱，现款

参考例句：

• She formed the dough into squares.她把生面团捏成四方块。
• The baker is kneading dough.那位面包师在揉面。

8 expertise   

n.专门知识(或技能等)，专长

参考例句：

• We were amazed at his expertise on the ski slopes.他斜坡滑雪的技能使我们赞叹不已。
• You really have the technical expertise in a new breakthrough.让你真正在专业技术上有一个全新的突破。

9 Ford   

n.浅滩，水浅可涉处；v.涉水，涉过

参考例句：

• They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上，所以我们只能涉水过河。
• If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪，必须极度小心。

10 renovate   

vt.更新，革新，刷新

参考例句：

• The couple spent thousands renovating the house.这对夫妇花了几千元来翻新房子。
• They are going to renovate the old furniture.他们准备将旧家具整修一番。

11 depot   

n.仓库，储藏处；公共汽车站；火车站

参考例句：

• The depot is only a few blocks from here.公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。
• They leased the building as a depot.他们租用这栋大楼作仓库。

12 mobility   

n.可动性，变动性，情感不定

参考例句：

• The difference in regional house prices acts as an obstacle to mobility of labour.不同地区房价的差异阻碍了劳动力的流动。
• Mobility is very important in guerrilla warfare.机动性在游击战中至关重要。

13 revival   

n.复兴，复苏，（精力、活力等的）重振

参考例句：

• The period saw a great revival in the wine trade.这一时期葡萄酒业出现了很大的复苏。
• He claimed the housing market was showing signs of a revival.他指出房地产市场正出现复苏的迹象。

14 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

15 potent   

adj.强有力的，有权势的；有效力的

参考例句：

• The medicine had a potent effect on your disease.这药物对你的病疗效很大。
• We must account of his potent influence.我们必须考虑他的强有力的影响。

16 bolster   

n.枕垫；v.支持，鼓励

参考例句：

• The high interest rates helped to bolster up the economy.高利率使经济更稳健。
• He tried to bolster up their morale.他尽力鼓舞他们的士气。

17 traction   

n.牵引；附着摩擦力

参考例句：

• I'll show you how the traction is applied.我会让你看如何做这种牵引。
• She's injured her back and is in traction for a month.她背部受伤，正在作一个月的牵引治疗。

18 superintendent   

n.监督人，主管，总监；(英国)警务长

参考例句：

• He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
• He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。

19 predecessors   

n.前任( predecessor的名词复数 )；前辈；（被取代的）原有事物；前身

参考例句：

• The new government set about dismantling their predecessors' legislation. 新政府正着手废除其前任所制定的法律。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Will new plan be any more acceptable than its predecessors? 新计划比原先的计划更能令人满意吗？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

20 columnist   

n.专栏作家

参考例句：

• The host was interviewing a local columnist.节目主持人正在同一位当地的专栏作家交谈。
• She's a columnist for USA Today.她是《今日美国报》的专栏作家。