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Michigan Students Fall Further Behind Nation in Early Literacy; Student Achievement Remains Stagnant for State, Detroit
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (Oct. 28, 2015) – Michigan’s continued student achievement stagnation means the state now ranks 41st in fourth-grade reading compared to state…
Ed Trust-Midwest Presents on Making Michigan at Top Ten Education State
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (Sept. 8, 2015) – Earlier today, Amber Arellano, executive director of The Education Trust-Midwest, presented to the State Board of Education …
Michigan Leaders Prioritize Key Investments for Michigan Students
ROYAL OAK, Mich. (June 3, 2015) – Earlier today, the Michigan House of Representatives and Michigan Senate adopted a fiscal year 2016 budget. Budgets reflect s…
ReadyNation: Michigan must ‘provide our students with the best opportunities to learn’
Today’s businesses need workers with critical “soft” and “hard” skills to produce in a fast-paced tech-savvy work environment. It is critically important that…
Support for Michigan Achieves from Athletes and Coaches
Champions for America’s Future – Michigan (Champs), part of a national bipartisan nonprofit organization of athletes and coaches, wants to make sure every chil…
Project beginning this fall in Grand Rapids area schools aims to support achievement gap closing
GRAND RAPIDS (May 11, 2015) -- The Education Trust-Midwest is launching a new program to provide greater support and coaching to teachers and promote collabora…
Education Trust-Midwest Statement on MME results
Michigan making slight progress, but state still struggling with low achievement and large gaps for Michigan high school studentsROYAL OAK, MICH. (July 7, 2014…
Statement from The Education Trust-Midwest on the U.S. Department of Education’s Teacher Equity Strategy
ROYAL OAK, MICH. (July 7, 2014) — Today U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced his intention to focus new energy on the problem of unequal access to…
Ed Trust President Kati Haycock Speaks at Mackinac Policy Conference
Haycock calls on Michigan to Build on Pre-K Investment to Provide Equitable Opportunities for All ChildrenMACKINAC ISLAND, MICH. (May 29, 2014) - Today Kati Ha…
Statement on the Supreme Court
Contact info:Nicolle Grayson202-293-1217, x. [email protected] Haycock, president of The Education Trust, and Amber Arellano, executive director of T…
New Data Show Detroit Student Performance Lowest in Nation for Urban Students
Contact info:Donnell [email protected]: (248) 854-5297ROYAL OAK, MICH. (December 18, 2013) – Detroit Public School student achievement continues …
Michigan Achievement Makes Little Progress
Contact info:Donnell GreenThe Education [email protected]: 248-854-5297New results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (…
Intentionally Successful: New Mini-Brief Finds College Efforts to Increase Student Success Work
Contact info:Blair Mann202-293-1217, x. [email protected] of new data on four-year colleges highlights efforts to increase graduation rates for stud…
Failing charter operators keep expanding in Michigan
Contact info:David ZemanDirector of Content and [email protected] - 734.619.8008, ext. 308c - 248.210.8476Good ones opening, too. But st…
Executive Director Amber Arellano’s testimony to the Michigan Legislature on Education Achievement Authority legislation
Contact info:David ZemanDirector of Content and [email protected] - 734.619.8008, ext. 308c - 248.210.8476LANSING, Mich. (November 19, 2…
Education Trust-Midwest: State should increase standards, not make it easier for schools to be deemed ‘proficient’
Publication date:November 7 2012Amber Arellano is executive director of the Education Trust-Midwest, a Royal Oak-based school advocacy group.The group has serv…
Many Michigan Students Not Meeting Higher MEAP Standards
Dismal results in eighth-grade math for African American, Latino studentsROYAL OAK, MICH. (February 15, 2012) – The Michigan Department of Education released t…
Ed Trust-Midwest Statement on the 2011 NAEP Reading and Mathematics Results
ANN ARBOR, MICH. (November 1, 2011) — Michigan now consistently ranks in the bottom of states in both performance and improvement in student achievement, afte…
New Report: On Key State Test, Detroit Public Schools is Not Michigan’s Lowest Performing School District for Some School Districts
Michigan Has Statewide Education Problem, Which Governor Rick Snyder Must Address to Rebuild State’s Tattered EconomyANN ARBOR, Mich. (January 13, 2011) – Cont…