In the newly released book, Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation (Jossey-Bass), Governor Bob Wise, former governor of West Virginia and one of the nation’s leading experts on high school reform, draws attention to the crisis in America’s high schools that sees approximately 1.2 million students failing to graduate every year, and calls for a federal response to this pressing issue.

Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, speaking at a White House briefing this morning, called on Congress to address the nation’s high school dropout crisis.

Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, issued a statement in response to U.S. Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings’s announcement today of new high school graduation rate regulations...

Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, issued a statement in reaction to the results from Pennsylvania’s primary election...

Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, issued a statement in response to today’s announcement of a major new initiative by the AT&T Foundation to keep students in high school and graduate them ready for college and the workforce...

In its new brief, Every Student Counts: The Case for Graduation Rate Accountability, the Alliance for Excellent Education argues that the way graduation rates are measured and reported seriously undermines effective high school reform, and identifies four policy recommendations for meaningful improvement.

If the more than 1.2 million U.S. high school dropouts from the Class of 2007 had earned diplomas along with their classmates, the federal government could have collected an additional $60.72 billion in tax revenue over these students’ lifetimes, according to a calculation from the Alliance for Excellent Education.

Because disparity in teaching quality is a major factor in why many low-performing high schools have trouble improving the achievement and attainment of students, more high-quality teachers need to be teaching disadvantaged students, according to a new brief from the Alliance for Excellent Education.

Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, issued a statement in response to the announcement that 69 percent of the nation’s eighth graders have less than proficient scores in writing, according to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, released today by the U.S. Department of Education...

Bob Wise, president of the Alliance for Excellent Education and former governor of West Virginia, issued a statement today as the America’s Promise Alliance announced a new report, Cities in Crisis: A Special Analytics Report on High School Graduation, and a national campaign to combat the nation’s dropout and college-readiness crisis...