The National Center for Media Engagement

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The National Center for Media Engagement is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to provide expertise and professional development to public media to deepen relationships with communities.
 
NCME is delighted to be working closely with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Nine Network of Public Media in St. Louis, Thirteen (WNET) in New York, and public media stations nationwide on American Graduate.
 

Have you or your station produced content on the dropout crisis facing middle school and high school students? If so, we’d love to include your work on our American Graduate playlist curated by PRX and NCME.
 

Series

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32 Pieces

American Graduate is aimed at addressing high school dropout through public media.

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20 Pieces

The audio from a series of reports produced by the PBS Newshour about dropout in American high schools.

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13 Pieces

In 2011, WGVU featured a weekly on-air series addressing various issues related to the dropout crisis.


Pieces

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KSJD's Jeff Pope talks with RE- 1 Interim Superintendent Mary Rubadeau and School Board Member Pete Montano about the board's decision to go back t...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:27
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KSJD's Jeff Pope talks with Interim RE-1 School District Superintendent Mary Rubadeau about her views on academic metrics, her goals as interim sup...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:49
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Jeff and Gail talk with two Dolores High School students and the Dolores School District Superintendent about how their education compares to stude...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 26:41
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Mancos High School students Lauren Kramer and Jake Driver join Jeff and Gail to talk about their perspectives on education and how it could be fixed.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 27:09
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A high school student and recent graduate detail their struggles staying in school and what pushed them to persevere.

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 42:54
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Sondra Samuels of North Side Achievement Zone and Eric Mahmoud of Seed Academy and and Harvest Preparatory School discuss solutions and impact to t...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 59:07
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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
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Nebraska Legislation LB800 combats truancy.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:49
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High school dropouts like Alex Pickerel return to high school for career training and GED prep courses.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:43
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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