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One Texas High School’s Efforts to Help Students Graduate (full documentary) | FRONTLINE (PBS)

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  • description: An unforgettable look at the lives of four students who were in crisis and the teachers, counselors and principal who fought to get them to graduation. (Aired 2012) This journalism is made possible by viewers like you. Donate to FRONTLINE now: https://bit.ly/47DFzCb And support your local PBS station here: https://www.pbs.org/donate What does it take to ensure a student graduates? That question was at the center of FRONTLINE’s 2012 documentary “Dropout Nation.” At the time, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States were quitting high school without diplomas. The massive dropout rates hindered individual career prospects and clouded the country’s future. Sharpstown High School in Houston, Texas, which had earned a reputation as a “dropout factory,” launched a high-stakes experiment to address this problem. FRONTLINE spent a semester immersed in Sharpstown High exploring the challenges students faced trying to stay in school and the struggles educators encountered to keep them there. A troubling and inspiring journey, “Dropout Nation” investigated the causes, challenges and potential solutions of a national emergency. “Dropout Nation” was written and produced by Frank Koughan. It was produced by Kevin Vargas. The co-producer was Lisa Kalikow. The executive producer of FRONTLINE was David Fanning. Explore additional reporting on “Dropout Nation” on our website: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/documentary/dropout-nation/ #Documentary #HighSchool #DropoutCrisis #Educators #Teachers Subscribe on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/PBSfrontline Sign up for our newsletter: https://frontline.org/newsletter Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/frontlinepbs Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/frontline Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/frontlinepbs.bsky.social FRONTLINE is produced at GBH in Boston and airs nationwide on PBS. The editor-in-chief and executive producer of FRONTLINE is Raney Aronson-Rath. Funding for FRONTLINE is provided through the support of PBS viewers and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, with major support from Ford Foundation, and The Fialkow Family Foundation, as part of the Plum Bush Foundation. Additional support for FRONTLINE is provided by the Abrams Foundation, Park Foundation, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Heising-Simons Foundation, and the FRONTLINE Trust, with major support from Jon and Jo Ann Hagler on behalf of the Jon L. Hagler Foundation, and Corey David Sauer, and additional support from Koo and Patricia Yuen. CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Prologue 01:38 - Why Some High Schoolers Had Attendance Issues 19:39 - A Program Aimed at Helping Struggling Schools 31:36 - Personal Challenges of Several Sharpstown High Schoolers 53:56 - How Educators Tried to Support Students Who Skipped School 01:19:34 - Significance of Tracking Why Students Dropped Out 01:37:22 - Preliminary Results of the Apollo 20 Program 01:46:08 - Graduation Day for Sharpstown High School Students 01:52:41 - Credits
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