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KUVO's American Graduate program visits two Colorado charter schools that serve at-risk youth and give students the opportunity to return to school...

  • Added: Aug 19, 2012
  • Length: 07:29
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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 Melissa Betrone talks with new Montezuma-Cortez School District Superintendent Alex Carter about his background, his views on education, and...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 22:46
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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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KSJD's Jeff Pope talks with Interim RE-1 School District Superintendent Mary Rubadeau about her views on academic metrics, her goals as interim sup...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 28:49
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Jeff and Gail talk with two Dolores High School students and the Dolores School District Superintendent about how their education compares to stude...

  • Added: Aug 17, 2012
  • Length: 26:41
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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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Nebraska Legislation LB800 combats truancy.

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 05:49
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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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Teachers are struggling to find solutions to the high school dropout crisis plaguing the nation. As part of our American Graduate Project series, G...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 07:47
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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
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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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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