It helps over time to lift our national standard ... but AP doesn't reach all students. Indeed, the challenge of high schools is, first of all, reducing a dropout rate that, nationally, is almost one-third.

Their parents and grandparents did not face the same job market. It's estimated that by the year 2010 only eight percent of the jobs in this country will be able to be handled by a high school dropout. Approximately thirty years ago 30 percent of jobs could have been handled by a high school dropout.

It will be challenging, but not that difficult to do another one well. Implementation is the hardest part of creating a full news block. Once you get going, you?re working with broadcasters who love what they?re doing.

It was such a challenge to do. I had to deliver the city of New York!

This is significantly higher than the number of students who stay in school, overall.

And that's just one year (of dropouts). Take 10 years of dropouts and you can see the even greater cost.

Reading is the heart of learning, and Illinois and the nation are in the literacy emergency room showing a flat line on the education EKG. The state's results clearly demonstrate that we still are not doing what is needed to help these older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses.

so that people can get to the appropriate medical provider.

The state's results clearly demonstrate that we still are not doing what is needed to help these older students build the reading skills they will need to deal with increasingly complex high school courses.

There will be set modifications and different graphic elements from what we do.