Wise Words - July 1, 2008

In the latest installment of "Wise Words," Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, examines what corporate fraud, mail package delivery, the IRS, and high school graduation rates have in common.

And more importantly, Wise discusses what we can do now to improve both graduation measurements and results for hundreds of thousands of students, referencing the recent Diplomas Count 2008 report, the Alliance's state cards, and a letter that the Alliance and others sent to the U.S. Department of Education on how to better calculate and report graduation rates, and how to hold schools and districts accountable for graduating all students.

Please visit the Alliance at http://www.all4ed.org/ to get more information on the state of America's high schools.

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