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2003
ANNUAL REPORT
Message from the
Chairman / Executive Summary
Dear Colleagues:
Quality education is the most important factor in ensuring a productive
workforce, enlightened citizens, and economic prosperity.
Maryland’s business community takes seriously its commitment to help
improve student achievement in Maryland. Through the Maryland Business
Roundtable for Education, more than 1,500 business men and women across
the state are making a personal and professional investment in today’s
young people and Maryland’s future.
MBRT believes that all children can learn at higher levels, and we
are committed to ensuring that:
- High school graduates are well prepared to succeed in college,
the workplace and in life;
- Maryland’s workforce is highly skilled and productive; and
- Our young people have the opportunity to contribute to – and
benefit from – a strong, prosperous economy.
Since its founding in 1992, MBRT has worked side by side with State
Superintendent Grasmick, the State Department and the State Board
of Education, educators, students, parents, elected officials, and
the community at large to help ensure that high school graduates are
prepared to perform at high levels and to successfully meet the challenges
they will face after graduation. We are addressing policy issues that
affect the overall quality and delivery of education; pushing for
high standards, rigorous assessments and strong accountability; developing
plans and tools that strengthen teaching and learning; demonstrating
the fundamental relationship between performance in school and success
in the workplace; and motivating students to take learning seriously.
MBRT’s Achievement Counts – an award-winning, comprehensive campaign
that mobilizes the community at large to encourage students to achieve
academic success – has created a groundswell of action and results
that have exceeded our most optimistic expectations and have astounded
our counterparts in other states.
- The Speakers Bureau enlisted,
trained and deployed 1,200 business volunteers who reached 50,000
freshmen in 110 high schools in 14 school districts with convincing
messages about the connection between achievement in school and
success in life.
- Parents Count is helping thousands
of parents to be effectively involved in their children’s education
and to understand – and act upon – the issues that will make a
critical difference in their child’s ability to be successful
in school and in life.
- The Teen Website will give
students – on an “anytime they want” basis – a wealth of information,
ideas, and actions on career exploration and academic preparation.
Designed with student input, this exciting, interactive website
will be launched in 2004.
- Maryland Scholars – utilizing
business speakers and incentives – provides middle and high school
students with compelling information about the rigorous coursework
they need to take and complete in high school in order to be successful
in college and the workplace.
We are seeing positive evidence that students will make good decisions
if we provide credible reasons, good information, and a vision of
what is possible for them.
Our future depends on their decisions. What we do now…or fail to do
now…will have a lasting effect on life as we know it in the 21st century.
Be part of the solution. Join the Maryland Business Roundtable for
Education’s efforts to help Maryland’s young people prepare for a
great future.
--
Raymond A. "Chip" Mason
Chairman, MBRT Board of Directors
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