Hudson County Educators

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• WELCOME
• Hudson County Educators
• May 22, 2007

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Introductions

• New Jersey Chamber of Commerce.
• Represents business community.
• Board of 70 CEOs, presidents of states most
  prestigious large and small companies.
• Consistent 1 issue (state/national)
• Lack of qualified workforce.
• Education is the workforce pipeline.
• NJ Chamber established The Business Coalition for
  Educational Excellence.
• Chambers Committees on Education.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Thanks

• Todays conference sponsored by PSEG

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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What CEOs Say

• Increasing demand for college graduates (two- and
  four-year).
• In 15 years, over 84 of jobs will require some
  level of college.
• Even now, less than 20 of employers will hire
  high school graduates.
• Over 75 of jobs available by the time todays
  kindergartners graduate have not even been
  invented yet.
• An adult with a college degree can earn over a
  million dollars more in a working lifetime.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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NJ Graduation Rates

• Institution Three-Year Graduation Rates
• Atlantic 17.7
• Bergen 10.6
• Brookdale 18.8
• Burlington 11.7
• Camden 10.8
• Cumberland 19.6
• Essex 5.7
• Gloucester 14.4
• Hudson 5.4
• Mercer 16.1
• Middlesex 11.0
• Morris 21.3
• Ocean 19.6
• Passaic 14.6
• Raritan Valley 12.2
• Salem 14.9
• Sussex 19.7
• Union 5.6

For first-time full-time continuously enrolled
students

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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NJ Graduation Rates

• Institution Six-Year Graduation Rate
• Kean 45.1
• Montclair 58.3
• New Jersey City University 38.1
• NJIT 55.2
• Ramapo 57.1
• Rowan 62.2
• Rutgers 69.0
• Stockton 61.8
• The College of New Jersey 82.7
• William Paterson 48.1

For first-time full-time continuously enrolled
students

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Ultimate Outcome

• Staggering national impact.
• 12 14 million jobs unfilled.
• More jobs migrate to other nations.
• 240 billion loss in national wealth.
• 80 billion loss in new taxes.
• Baby boomers retirement will reduce average
  national salary by 15.
• Less money for social services, schools, the
  arts, non-profits, etc.
• Loss of technical/global superiority.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Its a Tech World

• Advancing technology eliminates low skill jobs
  and requires workers with more skills.
• Toll booth operators
• Phone operators
• Bank tellers
• Grocery cashiers
• Burger flippers
• Receptionist

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

. . . . . . . EZ Pass
. . Voice Recognition
. . . . . . . . ATM Machines
. . Bar Code Scanner
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Robots
. . . Internet Connections
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More Trends

• Factor in class time, school year, and homework,
  many foreign students spend twice as much time in
  school as American students.
• Over 70,000 American students participated in the
  2005 Westinghouse Science Fair, but . . . .

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

Over 6 million Chinese students participated in
the same event.
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In America

• Parent rebellions over summer reading.
• High school sports draw more parents than
  academic meetings.
• Schools report that on any given day, 75 of
  student body has not done homework.
• School board mandates restrict homework to no
  more than 15 minutes of homework a night in
  middle school.
• Students opt out of rigorous courses
• Why do I need to know that?

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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What If They Knew

• Research defines minimal sequence ofcourses that
  correlate to success in college and life
• Algebra I, II, Geometry,
• Biology, Chemistry, Physics,
• Four years of college-prep English,
• Two years of a single World Language,
• Three years of Social Studies, and
• One semester of Economics.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Most Important

• Math is CRITICAL!
• Students complete Chance for Degree
• Algebra I
• Geometry
• Algebra II

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Exceed Minimum

• More is better.
• Students complete Chance for Degree
• Algebra I
• Geometry
• Algebra II
• Trigonometry
• Pre-Calculus
• Calculus

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Its NOT the Math

• Its what rigorous math does to the mind
  rigorous math builds the mind like exercise
  builds the body.
• Begins the academic momentum students will need
  to get through college and succeed in work.
• Provides the logic, thinking skills, discipline,
  etc. that they will need in college and work.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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What If They Knew

• Research shows homework associated with demanding
  courses is KEY.
• Students who do 15 hours of homework a week in
  high school school end up with
• In education (2.7 year total).
• Equivalent to an Associates Degree.
• In wages (35 wage spread)
• Millions of dollars in a lifetime.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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More Impact

• Grades count for college and work.
• Students who earn Cs and Ds have only a 50-50
  chance of earning even one college credit.
• Less than 14 of studentswith C average or less
  earn a degree (either two- or four-year).
• Increase of one letter grade(from C to B)
  results in 13 more earnings by age 28.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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The Reality

• Unprecedented convergence of knowledge and skills
  needed for college and work.
• High school diploma no longer ticket to middle
  class.
• Workforce Readiness Credential !
• Employers now use college degree as verification
  for jobs that once required only high school.
• Knowledge obtained in college-prep course work
  needed in majority of jobs.
• Car mechanic requires ability to read at level
  equivalent to junior in college.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Not Acceptable

• Neither business nor students are succeeding.
• CEO of security firm had to hire 130 security
  guards.
• Gateway to position was 8th grade math test (no
  calculator).
• Interviewed only high school graduates.
• Had to test 1300 candidates to find 130 employees.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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State of Apathy

• According to a report issued in September 2006,
  the Organization for Economic Cooperation and
  Development (OECD) has concluded, in an analysis
  of 30 countries, that richer nations face a
  growing lack of ambition among their children.
• The OECD found that this apathy is causing
  schoolchildren in the United States and Europe to
  lose ground to countries such as China and India
  that are adapting faster to changing needs and
  producing moreof the highly-skilled workers the
  21st century demands.

• SpeakerDana EgreczkyVice PresidentWorkforce
  DevelopmentNew JerseyChamber of Commerce
• PresidentBusiness Coalition for Educational
  Excellence

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Pleased to Introduce

• BCEE is working with national effort to get the
  message to students and parents.
• Learn More Now.
• Do More Now.
• Earn More Later.
• National Student Credentialing System

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Pilot Outcomes

• 107 - 250 increased enrollment in Physics.
• 220 increased enrollment in Economics.
• 50 increased enrollment in second year World
  Language
• Annual enrollment increases of 8 - 33 in key
  math and science courses.

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The System

• Learn More, Do More, Earn MoreStudent
  Credentialing System
• A national program for middle and high school
  students dedicated to ensuring that students and
  their parents have the information they need to
  make the best academic, behavioral, and career
  decisions.

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The System

• Learn More, Do More, Earn MoreStudent
  Credentialing System
• Middle and high school students hear the message
  and earn credentials for achieving
  business-defined criteria.
• Student-focused, teacher-delivered.
• Available to teachers, parents, employers.
• Delivers data-based messages to students.

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How Delivered

• Social Marketing Campaign
• Classroom posters/lessons/brochures
• Credentials
• Teacher awarded
• Online benchmarking exercises
• Parent meetings/student assemblies
• Media
• Business-related activities including
• Virtual Field Trips
• Virtual Job Shadowing
• In Jersey City
• Surveys/census

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LearnDoEarn System

• FREE to schools thanks to sponsors

Prudential Financial W.H. Kellogg
Foundation Merck Institute for Science
Education IBM Washington Mutual ETS Verizon Jo
hnson Johnson State Farm Bank of
America PSEG Sun Bank Cisco Maher
Terminals AGL Resources/ Elizabethtown
Gas First Energy/JCPL Washington Group Advance
Realty Atlantic City Electric Colgate-Palmolive

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LearnDoEarn.org

• Five programs remediate deficiencies in young
  adults (ala employers/professors).
• Cant think
• No work ethic
• No computer skills
• Cant manage money
• Cant do the math

. . . . World Class Students
. . . . . . . . . . . . School Counts
. . . . . . . . Technology Challenge
. . . . . . Work the Money
. . . . . . . . . . . . . Math Challenge
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Targets grades 6 - 12
Students complete rigorous courses. Get
additional Pell funding.
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Students achieve professional-level work
ethic. Use credential to get jobs.
Credentialing can start as early as grade 5
extends through grade 12.
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Start in Grade 8continue through 12.
Students earn credentials by successfully
completing sets of online exercises.
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Start in grade 7 continues through grade 12.
Students earn credentials by successfully
completing online exercises.
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Virtual Job Shadowing
School Counts Modules
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Visit Website Soon

• www.LearnDoEarn.org

Call to Action Join us in changing culture
build high expectations for students.
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Next Steps?

• What can we start today that will change the
  future?
• What kinds of commitments can we make to each
  other that will create young adults who are
  future citizens, employees, taxpayers?
• Ready for college.
• Ready for work.
• Ready for life.