Spotlight on Franklin Schargel - National Dropout Prevention
We will be featuring various articles, videos, and posts about Franklin throughout this month. You've landed on our first post, which highlights Franklin's work in national dropout prevention. Click here to learn about the National Youth-at-Risk Conference, where Franklin is speaking on March 3rd.
National Dropout Prevention Conference
Franklin held a workshop at the National Dropout Prevention Conference in January 2008. Below is a video from Franklin's YouTube Channel that features audience comments about the event.
What would happen if we reduced dropouts in America’s 50 largest cities?
If you haven't seen Franklin's Web site and Blog, be sure to check them both out. The Web site provides information about the Schargel Consulting Group as well as Franklin's workshops and events. The blog is a great resource for tracking trends in education as a whole but also has invaluable information on K-12 dropout prevention and at-risk students—Franklin's specialties. Below is a blog post written by Franklin in December 2009 titled "What would happen if we reduced dropouts inAmerica
The Alliance for Excellent Education calculates what the dropout problem costs the country and each of the 50 largest metropolitan areas. Check their website to see your city’s statistic.
If half the students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had graduated, they would have generated $4.1 billion more in wages and $536 million in state and local taxes nationally in one average year of their working lives, according to the new analysis.
The numbers vary depending on each region’s peculiarities. Bob Wise, the president of the alliance, noted that 84 percent of high school graduates in Honolulu go on to some kind of post secondary education, compared with 47 percent in Memphis. For the area that includes Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., for instance, the study finds that if half of the 70,929 students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had earned diplomas, they would have contributed $575 million more in wages and $79 million in property, sales, and income taxes during an average year, which the alliance defines as when a graduate is about 39 years old.
“Nearly 600,000 students dropped out of the class of 2008, at a great cost to themselves,” he said, “but as this study demonstrates, also to their communities.”
In a time when the nation is straining to pay for two wars, the health care crisis, a recession, one would think that the business community as well as the politicians would see that increasing our nation’s graduation rate would have a dramatic effect on our nation and our economy.
(For the original post on Franklin's blog, click here.)
Below is an article posted to Franklin's blog titled "15 Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention." The strategies were developed by Dr. Jay Smink, Executive Director of the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University in association with Franklin Schargel.
Want to see Franklin in action? He will be speaking at the National Youth-at-Risk Conference in Savannah, Georgia on March 3rd. Click here to find out more information about the conference.
If you want to have Franklin speak in your school/district or conference on this critical issue, call him at (505) 823-2339.
Browse books by Franklin Schargel.
National Dropout Prevention Conference
Franklin held a workshop at the National Dropout Prevention Conference in January 2008. Below is a video from Franklin's YouTube Channel that features audience comments about the event.
What would happen if we reduced dropouts in America’s 50 largest cities?
If you haven't seen Franklin's Web site and Blog, be sure to check them both out. The Web site provides information about the Schargel Consulting Group as well as Franklin's workshops and events. The blog is a great resource for tracking trends in education as a whole but also has invaluable information on K-12 dropout prevention and at-risk students—Franklin's specialties. Below is a blog post written by Franklin in December 2009 titled "What would happen if we reduced dropouts in
The Alliance for Excellent Education calculates what the dropout problem costs the country and each of the 50 largest metropolitan areas. Check their website to see your city’s statistic.
If half the students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had graduated, they would have generated $4.1 billion more in wages and $536 million in state and local taxes nationally in one average year of their working lives, according to the new analysis.
The numbers vary depending on each region’s peculiarities. Bob Wise, the president of the alliance, noted that 84 percent of high school graduates in Honolulu go on to some kind of post secondary education, compared with 47 percent in Memphis. For the area that includes Los Angeles and Long Beach, Calif., for instance, the study finds that if half of the 70,929 students who dropped out of the class of 2008 had earned diplomas, they would have contributed $575 million more in wages and $79 million in property, sales, and income taxes during an average year, which the alliance defines as when a graduate is about 39 years old.
“Nearly 600,000 students dropped out of the class of 2008, at a great cost to themselves,” he said, “but as this study demonstrates, also to their communities.”
In a time when the nation is straining to pay for two wars, the health care crisis, a recession, one would think that the business community as well as the politicians would see that increasing our nation’s graduation rate would have a dramatic effect on our nation and our economy.
(For the original post on Franklin's blog, click here.)
Below is an article posted to Franklin's blog titled "15 Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention." The strategies were developed by Dr. Jay Smink, Executive Director of the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University in association with Franklin Schargel.
Want to see Franklin in action? He will be speaking at the National Youth-at-Risk Conference in Savannah, Georgia on March 3rd. Click here to find out more information about the conference.
If you want to have Franklin speak in your school/district or conference on this critical issue, call him at (505) 823-2339.
Browse books by Franklin Schargel.
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