Franklin Schargel | 08/09/2011

America faces a severe school dropout problem, and students who leave school do not cause it. Far more teachers, by percentage, drop out of school than students. According to a variety of sources, 46 percent of teachers leave the field—drop out—within five years. A conservative national estimate of the cost of replacing public school teachers who have dropped out of the profession is $2.2 billion a year. Let’s look at some data: If the cost of replacing public school teachers who transfer schools is added in, the total cost reaches $9 billion every year (Alliance for Excellent Education, August 2005) . For individual states, cost estimates ra... Read More...

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Franklin Schargel | 03/21/2011

Schools are being asked to do more and more with fewer resources. For any school program to assure the high academic achievement of all children, there must be an active partnership between the school and community to address the social and personal, as well as the academic, needs of children. As Jehl, Blank, and McCloud (2001) conclude in Lessons in Collaboration , educators and community builders differ about the goals and scope of schools. Educators tend to see educational reform as focused on promoting the academic achievement of young people. Community builders — and some educators — focus on academic achievement in a broader context tha... Read More...

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Franklin Schargel | 11/19/2010

The job of running schools is too complex for schools to do it alone. For any school program to assure the high academic achievement of all children, there must be an active partnership between the school and community to address the social and personal, as well as the academic needs of children. But a disconnect exists between educators and community people. Educators tend to see educational reform as focused on promoting the academic achievement of young people. While community builders (and some educators) focus on academic achievement in a broader context that includes social and personal development. Read More...

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Franklin Schargel | 08/23/2010

What follows has been excerpted from 162 Keys to School Success: Be The Best, Hire The Best, Train, Inspire and Retain The Best which was published by Eye on Education in July, 2010. Ask people what is the most valuable resource America has and they will come up with a variety of answers including coal, oil, or other natural resources. For me the answer is “its people.” America has a talented, educated workforce. Education has supplied this workforce with knowledge and skills that most nations fail to provide. Yet educators are not valued in this society as much as they are in many other nations. And we are losing them a rate where schools o... Read More...

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Franklin Schargel | 03/31/2010

Schools need to be globally competitive, just as businesses are. We have come to recognize that Coca Cola is a global company, and you can buy a McDonald’s hamburger all over the world. Faxes, cell phones and the Internet have freed industrial firms from geographic boundaries. Toyota can build cars as easily in Evansville, Indiana as it can in Japan. Motorola can assemble pagers as easily in Singapore as it does in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Look at the label of any “American product.” General Motors makes cars in Canada and Korea as well as the United States. I.B.M. makes some of its computers in Mexico as well as the Far East. Pitney Bowes ... Read More...

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Franklin Schargel | 11/20/2009

There are five major causes of students dropping out of school: The child him/herself The family situation The community they live in The school environment The teacher(s) they have In order to prevent students from dropping out of school, we must attack Read More...

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Franklin Schargel | 08/26/2009

No Child Left Behind has placed a great deal of pressure on schools and school districts to lower dropout rates, increase their school graduation rate and narrow the achievement gap. In addition most states have raised their educational standards in order to become more globally competitive. The Gates Foundation has called the crisis, The Silent Epidemic. And it is. Every school day 171 school buses loaded with children leave school never to return. That is our daily school dropout rate. Read More...

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