National Press Club to Host ‘NEWSMAKER’ Media Briefing on ‘The Family: America’s Smallest School’

WASHINGTON, Oct. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — With education the focus of today’s policy debates and Congress debating the future of No Child Left Behind, a new report shows the extent to which educational success really begins at home. The Educational Testing Service (ETS) and the National Urban League will release the report, “The Family: America’s Smallest School,” at a National Press Club Newsmaker on Monday, October 29, 2007.

   Speakers:  Kurt M. Landgraf, President, Educational Testing Service              Richard Coley, Educational Testing Service              Marc H. Morial, President, National Urban League              Isabel V. Sawhill, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution, and               Co-Director of its Center for Children and Families   

Richard Coley co-authored the study with Paul Barton, ETS, who will also be available for questions.

ETS is the world’s largest assessment development and educational research organization. The National Urban League is the nation’s oldest and largest community- based movement devoted to empowering African Americans to enter the economic and social mainstream.

National Press Club

CONTACT: Debra Silimeo of the National Press Club, +1-202-842-3600; orTom Ewing of ETS, +1-609-683-2803; or Calvin Wilson of National Urban League,+1-212-558-5478