Richard Riley on High School Graduation Rates
Richard W. Riley was the U.S. Secretary of Education from 1993 to 2001, the Governor of South Carolina from 1979 to 1987 and a State Legislator from 1963 to 1977. He serves as the vice chair of the board of the Carnegie Corporation of New York and of Furman University, where he also chairs the advisory board of the Richard W. Riley Institute of Government, Politics and Public Leadership. Riley also is a board member of the KnowledgeWorks Foundation, a senior fellow at NAFSA: Association of International Educators and co-chair of the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future.