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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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As part of our American Graduate focus on teachers, testing and accountability, Ray Suarez moderated a discussion with several New York public scho...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 09:40
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Part of the American Graduate project addressing the country's high school dropout crisis, teachers across the nation have weighed in at town halls...

  • Added: Aug 13, 2012
  • Length: 11:11
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In the first installment of an 18-month series on the nation's high school dropout rate, Gwen Ifill sits down with Academy Award-winning actor Denz...

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  • Added: Aug 10, 2012
  • Length: 08:43
  • Purchases: 1
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Special correspondent John Merrow explores from the students' perspective how early college programs are encouraging youth to stay in high school.

  • Added: Aug 03, 2012
  • Length: 09:22