Kids who graduate in NM may help cut crime

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ALBUQUERQUE (KRQE) – A new plan to cut crime in New Mexico looks at getting more kids to graduate from high school.

One economist estimates if five percent more young men graduated in New Mexico, It could save the state $38 million in prison and jail costs.

Nobel Prize winning economist James Heckman says kids who graduate are less likely to be arrested and sent to jail.

Heckman also adds if that same five percent of high school grads also went to college, their combined income would be $20 million higher than if they hadn’t gone to college.

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Bitching doesn’t work – but asking the right person politely can do wonders!

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It’s easy to tell yourself, “I am just one small person – I don’t have a million bucks to do a campaign contribution, I don’t have any political connections – what chance is there for me to bring attention to an issue that’s important to me.”

Here is  something that happened to me many years ago that you might learn from (and I should always remember).      Continue reading →

ABQ Running Start for Careers, a new high school retention and workforce development program.

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The goal of Running Start for Careers is to give students direct entry into industry-developed and industry-taught programs in career development areas during their 11th and 12th grade years.

Running Start will allow electives to be utilized so that students who participate in approved programs will be able to graduate with the rest of their classmates.      Continue reading →

What is school for? (Seth Godin video)

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Click What is school for?  to go to the video

An engaging discussion of what the future of education wants to be

… and how

… and why.

 

 

Just added: ABEC’s Amazing Resource Wheel

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ABEC Resource Wheel – This resource/networking wheel is an amazing one-stop information and learning resource. It describes and links various resources, groups, and topics supporting students, parents, business, and non-profits interested in improving education. To use it, just click the image, sit back, poke away!

Resource Wheel

 The Albuquerque Business Education Compact (ABEC) is a partnership of business, education and local government in the greater Albuquerque, New Mexico community.