Utah Schools Must Produce more Job – and College – Ready Graduates
Posted: February 1, 2010
Author: Trent Kaufman
The recent financial crisis has made policy wonks argue about short- and long-term solutions to the challenges we face. Investing in a better educated and more skilled workforce is the most viable long-term strategy for helping America and Utah emerge from this crisis in a stronger and more competitive global economic position than we entered it.
This article suggests foundational steps, upon which State legislatures can build to create programs and initiatives that will result in more prepared high school graduates.
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Author
Trent Kaufman
Dr. Trent Kaufman is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cicero Group (www.cicerogroup.com). In 2006, he sold to Cicero the education transformation firm he had founded five years earlier. Today, that company, Education Direction (www.eddirection.com) is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Cicero’s and works with over a thousand schools around the world to measurably improve student learning.
Dr. Kaufman is respected globally for developing sophisticated systems to enable the use of performance data to maximize individual and team performance at organizations of varied purpose and form. He is a leading author of two best-selling books surrounding organizational transformation.
Prior to becoming a leading thinking in organizational design and transformation, Dr. Kaufman’s first “career” was in public education. He began as a social studies teacher in Washington D.C. before becoming a high school principal in the Bay Area of California.
Trent received a bachelor’s degree in Social Science, with an emphasis in Economics from Brigham Young University. He earned a master’s degree in Education and Leadership from the University of California, Berkeley. Trent earned a master’s degree in Policy Management and a doctorate in Performance Management from Harvard University.
Trent’s public service includes volunteer leadership positions with the Boy Scouts of America, church service, and advisory board roles with the Nike Innovation Fund, Strayer University, and High School Futures.
