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Many foster children live in several homes during a short span of time. All of the disruption has been correlated to poor academic performance.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:26
KNME’s American Graduate series profiles nex+Gen Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, a magnet school focused on engaging average students with proj...
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 07:24
Welcome to Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Alabama, a Title I "dropout factory" striving to improve its success rates.
- Added: Aug 21, 2012
- Length: 02:51
Steve Chappell, Grant Writer & Project Manager, WGVU
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 12:29
Bridget Cheney, Principal, Grand Rapids Public Schools
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 15:59
Dr. Damon Arnold, Education Director, Grand Valley State University
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 15:22
Steve Chappell, Grant Writer & Project Manager, WGVU
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 10:09
Bobby Springer, GVSU Office of Multicultural Affairs
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 14:57
Susan Ledy and Lindsay McHome, Literacy Center of West Michigan.
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 18:14
Stacy Stout, Hispanic Center of Western Michigan
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 15:35
Tony Campbell, VP United Way West Michigan & Mary Ann Prisichenko, Sibley Elementary School.
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 18:50
Dr. Bernard Taylor, Superintendent of Grand Rapids Public Schools.
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 16:35
Bobby Springer, GVSU Office of Multicultural Affairs
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 17:11
Emily Loeks, Director of Community Affairs, Celebration! Cinema.
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 16:10
Kimberly Jordan, Development Director at WFSS is in the studio talking about the T$ Project.
- Added: Aug 20, 2012
- Length: 08:28
KUVO details the obstacles and struggles that often cause students to drop out.
- Added: Aug 19, 2012
- Length: 05:37
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
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
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
