This morning, the Obama administration released its blueprint to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, currently known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In response, Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, made the following statement.

This morning, in his weekly address to the nation, President Obama discussed his blueprint to reauthorize the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as No Child Left Behind (NCLB). In response, Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, made the following statement.

Today, MetLife released The MetLife Survey of the American Teacher: Collaborating for Student Success, which finds that only 36 percent of teachers and 51 percent of principals believe that all students have the ability to succeed academically. In response, Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, made the following statement.

Gov Wise: “Zip codes are no way to educate America’s future workforce.”      This morning, the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices and the Council of Chief State School Officers released the first official public draft of the K–12 standards as part of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, a process led by governors and chief state school officers from fifty-one states, territories, and the District of Columbia. In response, Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia made the following statement.

A new report, released jointly by the Alliance for Excellent Education and the Commission on No Child Left Behind, argues that, despite the promise of education reform efforts such as Race to the Top and the state-led common standards movement, improvement can only be sustained if Congress and the Administration update and improve the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB).

The Alliance for Excellent Education released a brief today that details how the integral use of online technology in today’s secondary school classrooms can strengthen the teacher workforce, improve student outcomes, and allow states to do more despite flat education budgets.

Despite rural high schools often being shortchanged by current federal education policies, a new report from the Alliance for Excellent Education finds that rural schools routinely use practices that could be useful to boosting student performance in their urban and suburban counterparts.

During his State of the Union address, President Obama called for a reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), currently known as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). In response, Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, made the following statement.

Relatively small improvements in students’ educational performance can have large impacts on a nation’s future economic well-being, according to a new international study released today from the Paris-based Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD). The study uses economic modeling to show that even modest and achievable gains in student learning yield large increases in Gross Domestic Product over the long run.

As a result of a new game-changing study it released today, the Alliance for Excellent Education (Alliance) said there was demonstrated evidence that lowering the high school dropout rate will have important positive implications for the economic vitality of the forty-five largest metropolitan areas in the United States. The study, “The Economic Benefits from Halving the Dropout Rate: A Boom to Businesses in the Nation’s Largest Metropolitan Areas” measures on a city-by-city basis the growth in jobs, home ownership, levels of spending and investment, and car sales that will result from cutting the high school dropout rate in half.