Not everyone graduates in four years from the college in which they enrolled.
But not everyone graduates at 21: people take gap years, foreign-language degrees require a year abroad, while some science courses such as chemistry last four years.
The final result is that almost everyone graduates from High School anyway, so that the assessment tests become little more than an expensive annoyance, distressing students and degrading their education.* The remaining claim that the tests cause schools to raise standards is also untrue.
But, Whether or not recruits have mastered their subjects, almost everyone graduates.
CPB, whose partners include the America's Promise Alliance, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, has channeled an additional $10 million into program grants.
Robert Balfanz, co-director of the Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University, an author of the study issued last year and an adviser to the Bloomberg administration's task force, called the new advertising "evocative.
According to Robert Balfanz, of Johns Hopkins University's Everyone Graduates Center, just 12percentt of the nation's 20,000 high schools account for half of the country's dropouts and almost three-quarters of its minority dropouts.
Anyone can come here and everyone graduates, he says.
Robert Balfanz is Director, Everyone Graduates Center at Johns Hopkins University.
Between 5 million and 7.5 million students miss a month of school every year, according to a report that will be released Thursday by Johns Hopkins professor Bob Balfanz, who runs the university's Everyone Graduates Center.
