The National Center for Media Engagement

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The National Center for Media Engagement is funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to provide expertise and professional development to public media to deepen relationships with communities.
 
NCME is delighted to be working closely with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB), Nine Network of Public Media in St. Louis, Thirteen (WNET) in New York, and public media stations nationwide on American Graduate.
 

Have you or your station produced content on the dropout crisis facing middle school and high school students? If so, we’d love to include your work on our American Graduate playlist curated by PRX and NCME.
 

Series

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32 Pieces

American Graduate is aimed at addressing high school dropout through public media.

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20 Pieces

The audio from a series of reports produced by the PBS Newshour about dropout in American high schools.

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13 Pieces

In 2011, WGVU featured a weekly on-air series addressing various issues related to the dropout crisis.


Pieces

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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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Since 1994, YouthBuild has trained 110,000 high school dropouts around the country to put up houses for their community and think critically in the...

  • Added: Aug 14, 2012
  • Length: 09:09
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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
  • Purchases: 1
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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