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Education Leaders Meet in Washington, D.C., to Discuss Issues Surrounding College and Career Readiness
May 27, 2010With only 70 percent of American students receiving a high school diploma, and 53 percent of those who make it to college requiring remedial help, McGraw-Hill Education and its Center for Digital Education hosted a daylong symposium this week to identify ways to improve college and career readiness for all U.S. citizens. Opening the first College and Career Readiness Symposium, Harold McGraw III, chairman, president and chief executive officer of The McGraw-Hill Companies, discussed the economic ties to education, noting, "At the end of the day, college and career readiness is all about American competitiveness. Without properly preparing our students for their paths, academic or otherwise, we'll only exacerbate our economic problems." Full release.
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