Summer 2004 Breakfast Series: Graduation Tests

This summer, America Graduates and the Alliance for Excellent Education cohosted a summer breakfast series, at which leaders in the field of education gathered to discuss issues related to successful high school transformation and increasing graduation rates. Experts presented recent research findings and demonstrated effective transformations through profiles of emerging models.

Mike Cohen, President of Achieve, and Susan Traiman of the Business Roundtable presented at the second breakfast meeting in the series. Cohen discussed the findings of Achieve’s latest report, Do Graduation Tests Measure Up?: A Closer Look at State High School Exit Exams, and Traiman responded to the issues from the business perspective.

View Mike Cohen’s PowerPoint presentation