The Case for High School Innovation:

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The Case for High School Innovation A
business perspective
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Show of hands

• How many of you think we have a moral obligation
  as a society and in public education to produce
  a - Knowledgeable citizen of the world
• - Skilled in the use of modern tools
• - Ready for a life of learning and retraining
• - Economically ready to contribute

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Show of hands

• Who thinks that the jobs of the future will go
  the countries with the best educated workforce?
• Who thinks the economic vitality of a State or
  Nation is tied to that State or Nations
  education system?
• Who thinks that the US and North Carolina are
  immune to innovations that impact the rest of the
  worlds economy?

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What are business leaders saying?

• "Today, only one-third of our students graduate
  from high school ready for college, work and
  citizenship, the other two-thirds, most of them
  low-income and minority students, are tracked
  into courses that won't ever get them ready for
  college or prepare them for a family-wage job -
  no matter how well the students learn or the
  teachers teach. This isn't an accident or flaw in
  the system it is the system.
• Bill Gates, Chairman Microsoft, National
  Governors Association 2/27/05

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What are business leaders saying?

• The ability to innovate and create an educated
  workforce prepared to work in the industries of
  the future are some ways to propel West
  Virginias and the nations economies forward.
• John Chambers, Cisco Systems President and CEO,
  February 26, 2005 to Charleston, WV area alliance

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What leaders are saying?

• "The biggest ticking time bomb is the state of
  our K-12 education system because other countries
  are approaching university level education at the
  same ages."
• Craig Barrett, CEO Intel

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U.S. K12 Education Gets Failing Marks

• Of 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and
  Development countries, the U.S. is
• 24th in math
• 18th in science
• 15th in reading

Sources NCES, July 2004 PISA, November 2004
Rand Corp., December 2004 Carnegie Challenge,
2002
IBSG - 7
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U.S. Trailing and Falling Further Behind
Ranking of G8 countries 10th grade math
problem solving
OECD Ranking
Problem Solving
Math
Science
Reading
14th
15th
15th
18th
18th
24th
24th
2000
2000
2000
2003
2003
2003
2003
Source PISA, 2000, 2003
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Failure to Raise Student Achievement Results In
Huge Opportunity Cost
Potential GDP (trillions of dollars)
2002 Reform Dividend

• 2.5T lost economic output 19902002
• U.S. behind top performers since Accountability
  Movement
• Lost opportunity Pays K12 education cost
• Closing gap 12 years Adds 1 annual GDP / 980B

450B
Sources Cisco IBSG, calculations using
Congressional Budget Office data on potential
GDP, January 2005 Eric Hanushek, Lost
Opportunity, 2003
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Is education meeting this challenge? National
Statistics

• 100 of today's ninth graders
• 68 will graduate from high school with a regular
  diploma
• 40 will enroll in college immediately after
  graduation
• 27 will persist to their sophomore year in
  college and
• 18 will graduate from college within six years.
• The United States has fallen to 16th among
  developed nations in its graduation rate
• 30 Governors spoke of the issue in their State of
  the State address
• National Governors Association and Achieve
• Note College 4 year or community college

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Is education meeting this challenge? North
Carolina Statistics

• 100 of today's ninth graders
• 60-63 will graduate from high school with a
  regular diploma
• 41 will enroll in college immediately after
  graduation
• 29 will persist to their sophomore year in
  college and
• 18 will graduate from college within six years
  with a bachelors or associates

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How qualified are our graduates?

• Most employers rate high school graduates basic
  skills for work as fair or poor (60)
• Remedial training costs NC employers 40 M a year
• 53 of students take a remedial class in college
  (50 at the Community College level 3 at the
  UNC System level)
• Are we meeting our moral and economic obligation?
  Judge Manning Genocide

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What are 21st Century Skills?

• Using Internet Communications Technology at a
  higher plane than just competency but creatively,
  ethically to accomplish intellectual pursuits
• Communicate effectively beyond your immediate
  peer group-Globally
• Analyze complex information gathered from a
  multitude of sources
• Write and present well
• Develop solutions to interdisciplinary problems
  that have no one right answer
• Technology in this environment is not a panacea
  but a launching board
• Research by the Partnership for 21st Century
  Skills

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Infrastructure Broadband Penetration
(?29)
BroadbandSubscribersper 100 Inhabitants
(?16)
(?18)
France in 2005 10.2
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Preparing for technology careers
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Stats and job needs AeA Cyberstates 05

• Tech Careers in North Carolina
• 10,300 jobs lost in 2002 2003
• Recovery began in 2004 with a relatively stable
  workforce
• Average wage is 64K in NC-which is 92 above
  median
• Total NC tech employment Over 200K (includes
  IT)
• In tech industry companies 136K
• Growth and retirements will outstrip graduates in
  the
• state beginning in the decade
• Key positions held in government, private sector
  by baby
• boomerswhere are their replacements?

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AeA Study

• Mathew Kazmierczak, AeA director of research.
  "It's not that the U.S. has lost its lead. It's
  just that the people who are coming up from
  behind are coming on real strong."
• "If U.S. workers are to compete in a world
  economy that is knowledge driven by technology,
  the American education system needs to improve
  dramatically."
• This is a long-term issue for the U.S. tech
  industry. It used to be that if a tech company
  couldn't find a qualified U.S. worker, it could
  turn to a huge pool of foreign-born workers
  educated at U.S. schools. But even that pool is
  shrinking.
• In 2002, 50 of U.S. doctoral degrees in science
  and technology fields went to foreign nationals.
• In the past two years, the number of foreigners
  applying to U.S. engineering programs fell by
  36, says the Council of Graduate Schools.

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Engineering grads worldwide
2x engineers
2x
4x
1x
3x
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Worse US Degrees dont match Openings
Life Sciences Up...
...Engineering, Physical Sciences, and Math Down
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Bottom line

• US is losing its global competitive edge
• Our education system, while full of dedicated
  teachers and administrators, has not adapted to
  the new world demands and new world order
• States that adjust first will have a competitive
  edge in maintaining their economic vitality