15 Effective Strategies for Dropout Prevention
A must read. The strategies were developed by the National Dropout Prevention Center in association with Franklin P. Schargel. Call Franklin for more info.
From At-Risk to Academic Excellence Forward by Gene Bottoms
Take a look at the forward to the book, written by Dr. Gene Bottoms, Vice President, Southern Regional Education Board… Read more
In-School Suspension Letter to Parents from Dropout Prevention Tools
In-School Suspension Letter to Parents from Dropout Prevention Tools (PDF Format)
Service Learning Tracking Sheet from Dropout Prevention Tools
Service Learning Tracking Sheet from Dropout Prevention Tools (PDF Format)
Student Performance Self-Evaluation Form from Dropout Prevention Tools
Student Performance Self-Evaluation Form from Dropout Prevention Tools (PDF Format)
Franklin on NPR’s All Things Considered
An audio interview by National Public Radio’s Claudio Sanchez for a program on dropouts called Experts: Consistency Needed in Counting Dropouts.
Table of Contents of Dropout Prevention Tools
Table of Contents of Dropout Prevention Tools.
An Excerpt from Dropout Prevention Tools
How to Prevent School Bullying
Fostering a Love for Reading: an Investment in the Future (an article from the Guidance Channel Ezine)
Reading and writing skills are the essential ingredients in almost every subject taught in school. While many reading specialists and researchers may argue about the best approach to teach these basic skills, there is one thing they, and the research, agree on. If a child does not know how to read and write by the end of the third grade, that child is clearly at risk. In our desire to achieve the greatest success with the largest number of children placed in our charge, we must overcome the school-based obstacles that place children at risk. The way to ensure that no child is left behind is to ensure that reading and writing are effectively taught.
“Our Graduates Must Compete in the World” from the Albuquerque Journal
America’s choice (is) high skills or low wages. Either America will do whatever is necessary to create high-performance work organizations and the high skill levels needed to sustain them, or the country will continue to slide toward low skills and the low pay that goes with them. The choice is ours to make.” (Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce) Businesses are no longer geographically bound to produce products in their home countries. Toyota can build cars as easily in Evansville, Ind., as it can in Japan. Motorola can assemble pagers as easily in Singapore as it does in Fort Lauderdale. Look at the label of any “American product.” General Motors makes cars in Canada and Korea as well as the United States. IBM makes some of its computers in Mexico as well as the Far East. Pitney Bowes puts its name on the outside of some photocopy machines while Ricoh puts its mechanisms inside.
