Updated at 7:49 a.m., Monday, February 26, 2007
School achievement all the 'Buzz' in lecture today
News Release
Kati Haycock, executive director of Education Trust in Washington, D.C., offers a public presentation on "Improving Achievement and Closing Gaps Between Groups: Lessons from Schools on the Performance Frontier," from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. today at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa School of Architecture auditorium.Haycock will show ways in which schools contribute to the problem instead of helping to solve it, and she will also describe a series of schools that defy all the odds. These schools serve very poor children yet produce fabulous results. Haycock will present the data and the lessons learned from these schools.
Following her presentation, Brooke Haycock, the Education Trust's artist-in-residence, will perform a one-woman show called "Buzz" that will take the audience into three high-performing, high-poverty high schools, sharing the voices of students, teachers and principals, and highlighting how these schools enable students who nobody believes can "fly" to the highest heights.
