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Kati Haycock, President, The Education Trust
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Kati Haycock is one of the nation's leading child advocates in the field of education.
She currently serves as President of the Education Trust. Established in 1992, the Trust does what no other Washington-based education organization seeks to do -- speaks up for what's right for young people, especially those who are poor or members of minority groups. The Trust also provides hands-on assistance to educators who want to work together to improve student achievement, pre-kindergarten through college.
Prior to coming to the Education Trust, Haycock served as Executive Vice President of the Children's Defense Fund, the nation's largest child advocacy organization.
A native Californian, Haycock founded and served as president of The Achievement Council, a statewide organization that provides assistance to teachers and principals in predominately minority schools in improving student achievement. Before that, she served as director of the Outreach and Student Affirmative Action programs for the nine-campus University of California system.
Recent Responses
August 28, 2009 04:54 PM
What strikes me as so important about Senator Ted Kennedy’s work in education isn’t one moment or one story, but rather his willingness over many years to push his Democratic colleagues to embrace the concept of accountability for student achievement. He realized, before almost anyone else, that getting access to education for poor and minority students wasn't enough -- especially if the quality of that education was substandard. More money for kids, which he always fought for, wasn't enough either. To him, results mattered. Today, our national education policy focuses on results because Ted Kennedy insisted on it, reached within and…
Read moreJuly 27, 2009 07:55 AM
The hard work of educators and students has yielded important progress in recent years. Elementary-level achievement is higher than ever for all groups of students, and the gaps between them are narrowing. But despite this progress, we’re nowhere near where we need to be. Improvement in the lower grades has failed to translate into better performance among high schoolers. Students in other countries still outperform students in the United States. And though our achievement gaps are getting smaller, they remain miserably wide. Conventional thinking suggests that these gaps are “inevitable,” that our schools can never be expected to get low-income…
Read moreJuly 24, 2009 04:04 PM
Yes, new graduates often need career counseling and job-placement support as they enter a highly competitive workforce, especially during a time of economic crisis. But the most important thing colleges can do to make their students more attractive job candidates is actually to address their primary charge: ensure that students leave campus with the knowledge and skills they need to be successful. In addition, colleges must ensure that a higher percentage of the students who enroll actually make it through to graduation. After generations of improvement, America's young people no longer are better educated than their parents. Every year, about…
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