http://www.schargel.com Developing World Class Schools and Graduates Fri, 17 Jul 2009 23:12:28 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Over 7 1/2 minutes of my presentation delivered at Coastal Community College is now posted on the You Tube Website.(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgNU5UhDAX0) For additonal information, feel free to contact me at franklin@schargel.com if you are interested in having me speak at your school, district or conference. http://www.schargel.com/2009/07/17/helping-students-graduate-excerpt/ On Sunday, August 9. I will be interviewed by Nicole Brady on KOB TV's Eye on New Mexico discussing the high school graduation rate in New Mexico as well as the nation. KOB is New Mexico's NBC affiliate. It is possible to view the broadcast for the ... http://www.schargel.com/2009/07/16/television-interview/ Education Week has supplied a way to see how your state is applying the Federal Stimulus monies it receives. It appears that many states have not applied for it and that fewer have developed plans for disbursement. The following provides national and state-by-state breakdowns of funding from the American Recovery ... http://www.schargel.com/2009/07/15/follow-the-educational-stimulus-money/ I am honored to be presenting an all-day workshop to the Fargo, North Dakota School System entitled, Helping Students Graduate: Tools and Strategies to Keep Students in School. http://www.schargel.com/2009/07/14/fargo-north-dakota/ The Obama administration warned states it might withhold millions of dollars if they use stimulus money to plug budget holes instead of boosting aid for schools. Education Secretary Arne Duncan made the threat in a letter to Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell. Duncan wrote he is displeased at a plan by ... http://www.schargel.com/2009/07/13/who-says-that-education-is-important/ I will be presenting an all-day workshop dealing with Helping Students Graduate: Tools & Strategies to Keep Students in School for the faculty of the Caney Oklahoma school system as part of their opening school ceremonies. http://www.schargel.com/2009/07/13/caney-oklahoma-schools/ I recently appeared with Paul Broome, Education Coordinator, Office of the Albuquerque Mayor on a PBS show entitled New Mexico in Focus: discussing the dropout problem. You can view the show (although the voice and sound aren't in sync) at. ... http://www.schargel.com/2009/07/08/683/ The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MDC, Inc., announced on June 22, that it would provide $16.5 million in grant money for 15 community colleges and five states to expand remedial education programs. The announcement referred to a recent report from Jobs for the Future that notes that remedial ... http://www.schargel.com/2009/07/06/the-gates-foundation-and-remediation/ See below for the latest grant announcements from the National Dropout Prevention Center at Clemson University. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation is offering up to $150,000 for Active Living Research and Healthy Eating Research Grants. These are national programs that support research to identify promising policy and environmental strategies for increasing physical ... http://www.schargel.com/2009/06/29/grant-alert-2/ Children who are home schooled are white, wealthy and their parents are well educated. Their numbers have dramatically increased, nearly doubling from 850,000 in 1999 to 1,508,000 in 2007 according to the the U.S. Department of Education's National Center for Educational Statistics. Home schooled females now outnumber the ... http://www.schargel.com/2009/06/29/home-schooling/