American Graduate
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WUNC's American Graduate Project is part of a nationwide public media conversation about the dropout crisis.
WUNC's American Graduate Project is part of a nationwide public media conversation about the dropout crisis. We'll explore the issue through news reports, call-in programs and a forum produced with UNC-TV. Also as a part of this project we've partnered with the Durham Nativity School and YO: Durham to found the WUNC Youth Radio Club. American Graduate programming is funded in part with support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Project Funders:
GlaxoSmithKline
The Goodnight Educational Foundation
Joseph M. Bryan Foundation
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After steady, if slight, growth in teaching positions through 2009, the number of positions has taken steps backward in the following seven years. ...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 03:11
The Department of Homeland Security will proceed with an Obama Administration grant program to counter violent extremism, but UNC-Chapel Hill is a...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: :50
UNC-Chapel Hill is waiting for the federal government to release money awarded by the Obama Administration. Nobody is sure if it will ever come.
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 03:31
Low end-of-grade test scores can have consequences for administrators and teachers. Districts can fire personnel at persistently low-scoring school...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 04:08
North Carolina lawmakers are banking on the benefits of digital learning. Four years ago they passed legislation requiring that state funding for t...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 03:29
State Superintendent Mark Johnson's first months leading North Carolina Public Schools has been marked by a legal battle over just how much power h...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 03:59
Weekly piano lessons over the course of seven years could have cost Joshua’s family anywhere between $15,000 and $30,000. With help from Chapel Hil...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 03:53
Jess Clark reports on the effects of state-mandated class-size reduction in kindergarten through third grade.
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: 03:24
Governor Pat McCrory has made the rise of teacher pay a centerpiece of his bid for reelection.
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: :52
A Department of Public Instruction report shows after seven years of progress in reducing high school dropouts, last school-year the state's dropou...
- Added: Sep 15, 2017
- Length: :35
The Trump administration wants to cut $1 billion in federal education funding for after-school programs. Many of these programs provide low-cost or...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:51
The Miles of Smiles mobile dental clinic is operated by the New Hanover and Brunswick county health departments, it stops at 19 schools a year to s...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:58
Corporal punishment is still a legal practice in North Carolina schools. But today there are just two districts in the state where educators still ...
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- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 07:02
- Purchases: 1
Governor Morehead School is North Carolina’s only state residential school for the blind.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 04:15
Last school year, Thompson enrolled her three kids in North Carolina Virtual Academy (NCVA)—one of the state’s two virtual charter schools. Both ha...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 04:04
One of the lesser known provisions of the sweeping 2013 voter ID law ended voter preregistration for 16 and 17-year-olds. Now that the Fourth Circu...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:50
Homeschooling is becoming more common, and studies suggest that military parents are more likely to homeschool their kids.
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:58
GLOW Academy is the state's first all-girls charter school. It opened its doors in Wilmington this school year and is part of a national network of...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:52
The elementary school hallway of Magellan Charter School. Magellan has one of the highest school performance grades in the state, but it also has a...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: 03:52
Newly hired teachers and staff at a 2015 orientation for Wake County Public Schools. Small rural districts find it difficult to compete with Wake C...
- Added: Sep 14, 2017
- Length: :35
