There is a strong link between bullying and suicide, which is just one reason why it is an issue to be confronted. (Flickr/Thomas Ricker)
While this article is largely Frida Berrigan’s story, her last four paragraphs provide some good, supportive, solution-oriented thinking.
You can read Frida’s full article here.
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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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
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!
The Albuquerque Business Education Compact (ABEC) is a partnership of business, education and local government in the greater Albuquerque, New Mexico community.
Here are two articles that seemed to me to go towards explaining what we are reading about, experiencing, and trying to come to grips with in education today:
What Do U.S. College Graduates Lack? Professionalism
What are employers and society in general finding problems with? National Association of Manufacturers surveys of “Skills Gap” notes some problems coming out of high schools and colleges that may shed some light:
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How many companies are cooking the books?
According to the latest Ernst & Young survey of employees, boards of directors and top managers in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and India, the following systemic cultural problems were noted:
These activities lead to “Wild West” attitudes and cultures, a general sense of entitlement and invitation/incentive to take increased financial, managerial, societal, moral risk.
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President Ronald Reagan’s Education Department issued the report “A Nation at Risk” 30 years ago.
This article describes what has, and hasn’t, happened since 1983, and provides interesting historical contexts for conversations about education today.
I’m linking to it rather than copying it to honor Philip Elliott’s AP copyright.
Hope you enjoy it.