The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic! | Bill Milliken | An excellent book by a child advocate

The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic! | Bill Milliken | A Must Read for Business and Philathrophy Organizations

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	The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic! Bill Milliken Hay House, 2007 - 256 pages average customer review:based on 7 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Did you know that we?re battling an epidemic* . . . ?
?       Almost one-third of all high-school students fail to graduate with their class; among minorities, the dropout rate is almost 50 percent.
?                Dropouts are more likely than their peers to be unemployed, live in poverty, have poor health, depend upon social services, and go to jail.
?       The combined loss of income and revenue to the American economy from a single year?s dropouts is about $192 billion.
*From The Silent Epidemic (Bridgeland, Dilulio, and Morrison, 2006)

        But there is a solution to the dropout crisis that is proven, effective, replicable, and sustainable! Communities In Schools (CIS) reaches more than one million at-risk students and their families annually in more than 3,000 American schools. These kids would fall far below the national average for every measure of student success. Yet 98 percent of CIS-tracked students stayed in school. Why? What makes the difference?
        The Last Dropout offers nine key principles that Communities In Schools has tested over three decades. Interwoven are the dramatic life stories of CIS founder Bill Milliken and his colleagues, a journey that began in the turbulent 1960s as youth workers with a spiritual mission struggled to turn around the lives of dropouts and addicts. It traces the evolution of the CIS movement from a handful of groundbreaking ?street academies? to a national network of hundreds of local affiliates. The Last Dropout also features stories about how CIS leaders have adopted these principles in their own communities, with stunning results!

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An excellent book by a child advocate

The book is easy to read and provides valuable information every community needs to implement a community driven program such as Communities In Schools. We must provide services to children of all ages in our community that are meaningful and life changing/guiding. This book leads the way. The five basics are, indeed, what every child needs and deserves. I compliment Mr. Milliken for placing a high priority on every child's future and then showing us how to do the same.

A Must Read for Business and Philathrophy Organizations

This book provides a glimpse at a 30 year movement to help change public schools in America. These simple but challenging principles can help transform communities and schools to not allow kids to continue to dropout of school. You not only get to understand a national organization's plan for change, but you get a glimpse into Bill Milliken's life journey. Fabulous book!!!!!

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Best book on helping dropouts!

I am in the business of trying to keep young people from dropping out of school and I think this is the best resources I've ever read to give concrete ideas and real hope for how the community can help schools keep kids in school. I recommend it to anyone who is interested in improving public education or building a better trained work force.

A Great Read!

This book deserves YOU to read it. If you didn't believe you could make a difference-now you should! If you didn't know how to make that difference - now you do! With compassion and aliveness in his words, Bill Milliken's The Last Dropout brings forth the triumphs and perils that laud championing for our youth. At times, I wanted to cry, at other times I laughed, but mostly I affirmed myself to do all I can when I can for our youth. This book is training, and yet a testament to the thousands of foot soldiers disguised as site coordinators, Graduation Coaches, counselors, teachers, and businessmen, who are out there working out those five basics and doing W.I.T. (Whatever It Takes) to help kids stay in school, successfully learn and prepare for life.

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The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic

[[ASIN:1401919030 The Last Dropout: Stop the Epidemic!] is perhaps one of the most important books published in the last decade. Expecting the usual dry academic format, I was delighted to find this an easy flowing read filled with passion and common sense solutions to an epidemic too long ignored. I would recommend this be required reading for teachers in training, educators at all levels, business people, legislators and parents. "Today's youth is our ONLY next generation" and Milliken addresses protocols that are achievable within the next 5-10 years to wipeout this "killer of our youth".

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