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Genoa McNeil, Assistant Director of Admissions and Fayetteville State University and Branton Church, Admissions Counsellor speak about their effort...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 08:51
Claire Abdel-Malak, community outreach coordinator for Cumberland International Early College High School is interviewed about the intriguing metho...
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 05:27
Former students receive salaried training inside many of Colorado's white-collar companies as an alternative to difficult home settings.
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 06:51
KUVO explores the unique challenges facing at-risk Native American students.
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 08:37
KUVO details the obstacles and struggles that often cause students to drop out.
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 05:37
KSJD's Melissa Betrone talks with new Montezuma-Cortez School District Superintendent Alex Carter about his background, his views on education, and...
- Added: Aug 17, 2012
- Length: 22:46
For Lincoln native Alex Pickerel, the reasons for dropping out of high school went beyond merely not liking school. A series of bad turns in his li...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:21
Nebraska Legislation LB800 combats truancy.
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:49
High school dropouts like Alex Pickerel return to high school for career training and GED prep courses.
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 05:43
In New Orleans, the city with the most public charter schools in the nation, individual charters’ standards of discipline can vary widely. Sharon L...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 06:35
Education Secretary Arne Duncan has called Detroit, where four out of 10 children don't graduate from high school, "arguably, the worst school dist...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:01
One city's struggle to regain its economic footing is also tied to significant problems in its schools. Jeffrey Brown reports from Reading, Pa., as...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 10:27
Special correspondent John Tulenko reports from Indiana, where a voucher program allows families to choose religious schools, charter schools and p...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 11:20
Teachers are struggling to find solutions to the high school dropout crisis plaguing the nation. As part of our American Graduate Project series, G...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:47
Trying to entice wayward students back to class in Las Vegas, Chaparral High School Principal David Wilson led teams into communities to knock on d...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:57
Students with learning differences are twice as likely as their peers to drop out of high school, according to the National Center for Learning Dis...
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- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 09:56
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A growing number of state legislatures are using driving privileges as an incentive to keep students from dropping out of high school. States' laws...
- Added: Aug 14, 2012
- Length: 07:20
Part of the American Graduate project addressing the country's high school dropout crisis, Ray Suarez and former Deputy Secretary of Education Dian...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:40
Hoping to stem a high school dropout crisis, one Texas superintendent is luring many students back to school by giving them a taste of college cour...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:00
As part of the NewsHour's American Graduate series, correspondent Spencer Michels reports on Techbridge, an after-school program based in Oakland, ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:42
Victor Rios says he has lived two lifetimes. In his first, he was a gang member, juvenile delinquent and high school dropout. Now, he's a sociology...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:54
Photographer and University of California, Santa Barbara professor Richard Ross has spent five years documenting juvenile detention facilities thro...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 05:46
In Shelbyville, Ind., Melissa Lakes and the Student Achievement Center provide at-risk students with technology-enhanced hands-on learning. But it ...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 08:56
How does violence affect students' ability to learn? That's what eighth-grader De'Qonton Davis and his classmates set out to investigate as part of...
- Added: Aug 13, 2012
- Length: 09:04
In recent months IU students have protested the rising cost of higher education many times, once going so far as to temporarily shut down an IU Boa...
- Added: Jun 04, 2012
- Length: 09:19
