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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
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 14, 2012
- Length: 06:16
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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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
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
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
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
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
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For the second week of September (9/8): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a singer whose musical oddity took him to pop s...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the fourth week of August (8/23): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a man who blended conjunto and country to become ...
- Added: Aug 03, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of December (12/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at folk songwriter who became a somewhat reluctant ...
- Added: Aug 02, 2012
- Length: 01:40
For the last week of October (10/30): This week, Texas music scholar Gary Hartman takes a look at a woman who wrote the state’s first known English...
- Added: Jul 30, 2012
- Length: 01:40
Architect and sustainability expert Leigh Stringer is convinced that LEED green buildings are only a piece of the puzzle when designing a sustainab...
- Added: Jun 30, 2011
- Length: 33:57
How does capital flight work and how big a problem is it? Krishen Mehta of Global Financial Integrity (GFI) explains that in total, developing coun...
- Added: Jun 03, 2011
- Length: 29:43
Michael Ellis, from the sustainability consulting firm GreenOrder, discusses how companies can work with employees to make sure they're onboard wit...
- Added: Jun 01, 2011
- Length: 29:18
Scott Belsky believes that the greatest breakthroughs across all industries come from creative people and that teams are especially productive. So ...
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- Added: Apr 18, 2011
- Length: 24:01
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Women and girls are a powerful accelerator for change, says Nike Foundation's Swan Paik. By allowing girls to fall through irreversible trap doors ...
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- Added: Mar 25, 2011
- Length: 30:32
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Everyone knows that the only real solution to piracy in the Indian Ocean is to stabilize Somalia and revive its economy, says Merchant Marine Capta...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2011
- Length: 24:31
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Jerusha Klemperer, associate director of programs at Slow Food USA, explains the differences between slow and fast food and discusses food equity--...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2011
- Length: 28:44
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Author and eco-entrepreneur Roo Rogers' ventures include an alternative town-car service that uses hybrid cars. His recent book, "What's Mine is Yo...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2011
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Can MBAs be held to "do no harm" standards similar to those of MDs? The MBA Oath was created by a group of Class of 2009 Graduates of Harvard Busin...
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- Added: Mar 07, 2011
- Length: 26:40
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"Although there is no magic bullet, social entrepreneurship unlocks everybody's ability to be a change maker and to participate in the solutions to...
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- Added: Mar 04, 2011
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"We strongly believe that markets can be made to work for the poor in ways that far surpass the ability of the public sector and other intervention...
- Added: Mar 01, 2011
- Length: 27:04
