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Former West Virginia governor’s book hits shelves Friday

May 01, 2008 @ 02:32 PM

BILL ROSENBERGER

Herald-Dispatch.com

Former West Virginia Gov. Bob Wise, now the president of the Alliance for Excellent Education, has written a book on education reform that hits shelves Friday.


In “Raising the Grade: How High School Reform Can Save Our Youth and Our Nation,” Wise draws attention to the crisis in America’s high schools that sees approximately 1.2 million students failing to graduate each year. The book also reveals the the financial cost of the neglect to secondary education.


With most federal dollars targeted to elementary schools and higher education, few resources are allocated to improve high schools, the book’s preface reads.


“During my more than two decades in public service, I always believed that I was doing the best job I possibly could to improve educational opportunities for the young people in my state and district,” Wise said in a press release.

“With the benefit of hindsight ... I have realized that my efforts, though well-intentioned, were missing a crucial element. I focused primarily on the bookends of education: early childhood, with the passage of a bill creating four-year Pre-K; and higher education, via the PROMISE Scholarship, which helped thousands of West Virginia students remain in the Mountain State for college.”


For more information on the book, visit http://www.all4ed.org.