Archives for July 2011

My latest Huffington Post blog has been posted. It is entitled, “America’s Next Educational Crisis” but can also apply in foreign nations as well.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/franklin-schargel/americas-next-educational_b_883381.html

It’s also permanently listed in your author archive:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/franklin-schargel/

SREB has changed the time and date of my speaking.  Please take note.

Franklin has been selected to make two presentations at the Southern Regional Education Board (SREB) High Schools That Work Conference to be held in Nashville, TN.  On Thursday, July 21 at 9:30AM, Franklin will be presenting a workshop entitled “It’s Time to End the Plague of School Dropouts” in the Presidential Ballroom A.

On Thursday, July 21 at 2:15 PM, Franklin will be presenting a workshop entitled “School Leadership and School Cultures That Build Graduation Rates” in the Presidential Ballroom A.

The conference will be held at the Opryland Hotel.  Stop by and enjoy the workshops and say hello.

The following statistics about book publishing and reading were found on www.parapub.com, this is the Web site of self-publishing guru Dan Poynter. They’ll give you an idea of what you’re up against if you are trying to encourage students to read.

• 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
• 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
• 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
• 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
• 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
• 70 percent of books published do not earn back their advance.
• 70 percent of the books published do not make a profit.
  (Source: Jerold Jenkins, www.JenkinsGroupInc.com)

• 53 percent read fiction, 43 percent read nonfiction. The favorite fiction category is mystery and suspense, at 19 percent.
• 55 percent of fiction is bought by women, 45 percent by men.
  (Source: Publishers Weekly)

• About 120,000 books are published each year in the U.S.
  (Source: www.bookwire.com)

• A successful fiction book sells 5,000 copies.
• A successful nonfiction book sells 7,500 copies.
  (Source: Authors Guild, www.authorsguild.org)

• On average, a bookstore browser spends 8 seconds looking at a book’s front cover and 15 seconds looking at the back cover.
  (Source: Para Publishing, www.parapub.com)

• Each day in the U.S., people spend 4 hours watching TV, 3 hours listening to the radio and 14 minutes reading magazines.
  (Source: Veronis, Suhler & Associates investment banker)