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Kimberly Jordan, Development Director at WFSS is in the studio talking about the T$ Project.

  • Added: Aug 20, 2012
  • Length: 08:28
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KUVO details the obstacles and struggles that often cause students to drop out.

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
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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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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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 14, 2012
  • Length: 06:16
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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
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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
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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
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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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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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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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The Chinese economy and defense budget have grown at an enormous rate over the past five years. Do you think that this will lead to global confront...

  • Added: Jun 10, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Created and managed by Carnegie Council Ethics Studio and written by Senior Fellow William Vocke, Global Ethics Corner is a weekly 2 minute segment...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Taiwan requires electric utilities to purchase renewable energy, subsidized by the government. Recently when solar rates went down, the government ...

  • Added: May 16, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Japan's recent tsunami and nuclear disaster have devastated its fishing industry. Fish are at the heart of Japanese culture, yet worldwide stocks o...

  • Added: Apr 29, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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Economic models were the basis for crucial practical decisions that led to the 2008-09 financial crisis. Yet government bailouts remain controversi...

  • Added: Apr 25, 2011
  • Length: 02:00
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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
  • Purchases: 1