St. Lawrence County March 16, 2007

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Business Teachers Statewide Under 2620 (0.9%)0 (0%) (12.4%)5 (18%) (20.3%)5 (18%) (25.6%)7 (25%) (26.0%)9 (32%) (14.9%)2 (7%)

Enrollments are UP!!!! , ,710 11% Increase ,834 19% Increase

Growth from 2004 – 2006 EntrepreneurshipUp 55% 0-0 Business EconomicsUp 39% 0-0 College LawUp 44% 1-21 College Bus. MathUp 36% 0-0 College AtgUp 34% 2-30 College MarketingUp 34% 2-34 Fashion MarketingUp 126%0-0

Growth Continued…. FinanceUp 146% 1-26 MOUSUp 138% 2-13 Sports & Ent. MktingUp 26% 4-41

Have You Thought About… Sport Management 0-0 Web Design 2-30 Ecommerce 1-35 Business of Music 0-0 Cyberlaw, Sports Law or Entertainment Law International Business 0-0 Math & Financial Apps 1-9

St. Lawrence County Keyboarding/Communications Keyboarding (1/2 unit) Business Law 8-95 Accounting 8-74 Elem. Keyboarding 5-167

Alger Survey Key Finding: 95% of Students said… Providing opportunities for real world learning would improve high school! Internships, service learning, and other opportunities to make learning MORE RELEVANT.

Alger Survey Key Finding 92% of Students said… that teachers giving them advice about what courses to take to prepare them for college and for the careers they want would improve their high school experience.

Dropping Out….. Of high school dropouts, 88% said they had passing grades in high school. Asked to name the reasons they had left school, more respondents named boredom than struggles with course work. Source: Gates, “The Silent Epidemic”

2005 Survey by National Governor’s Association Almost two-thirds of students say they would work harder if courses were more demanding or interesting About the same number of students said their senior year would be more meaningful if they could take courses related to the jobs they wanted or if some of their courses could be counted toward college credit.

Even more striking, when the governors asked high schoolers how valuable their senior year was, half said it was a “waste of time,” or could be “much more meaningful,” and more than a third said their classes were not adequately preparing them for college.

Of the 10 Most Popular Majors #1: Business Admin/Management #8: Communications #9: Computer Science Source: Princeton Review

Starting Salaries Computer Science$50,046 Accounting$45,723 Economics/Finance$45,191 Business Admin/Mangt$39,850 Marketing$36,260 Source: NACE Winter 2006 Survey

A Great Time for Business Ed