“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.
Stopping Dropping Out! (An Interview with Education World)
Efforts to prevent students from dropping out of school should begin when children start school, not when they’re about to leave it, says Franklin P. Schargel, one of the authors of Strategies to Help Solve Our School Dropout Problem. According to Schargel and co-author Jay Smink, educators, parents, and the community need to work together to reduce the school dropout rate.
“Improved Education at Core of Rich Future” from the Albuquerque Journal
George W. Bush’s educational program is a radical shift in the nation’s paradigm.
Traditionally, students were either tracked into college-bound or non-college-bound courses of study. Or they dropped out.
Building Russia’s Competitiveness in the 21st Century: From the Schoolhouse to the Workplace
Franklin was a presenter at the 6th TQM World Congress, 2001, Saint Petersburg, Russia. His presentation was based on the information in this paper, called Building Russia’s Competitiveness in the 21st Century: From the Schoolhouse to the Workplace. (PDF Format)
