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Former governor of West Virginia from 2001-2005 and a nine-term member of Congress, Wise is currently with a national policy and advocacy organization working to ensure that all students graduate from high school prepared for success. In this text, he examines how the quality of American secondary education has declined in recent decades and the resulting cost to society when it fails to educate its youth. He also offers examples of many model public schools that are successfully educating students, and makes a number of recommendations for reform, especially at the federal level, to revitalize the nation's secondary education system. Academic but accessible to the general reader. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Written by Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and current president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, Raising the Grade describes the alarming cost of our long-time neglect of secondary education. At a time when technology and postsecondary education requirements are rising dramatically in the workforce, the literacy skills of adolescents are not keeping pace. With most federal dollars targeted to elementary schools and higher education, few resources are allocated to improve high schools, to address the achievement gap threatening nearly 6 million students at risk of dropping out in the United States. Raising the Grade is rooted in the stories of real Americans whose high school experiences failed to engage or adequately prepare them for work or college.
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