Taste of College Encourages Students to Continue Classes
From: The National Center for Media Engagement
Series: PBS Newshour
Length: 09:22
The PBS Newshour is a part of American Graduate, a public media initiative to investigate the dropout issue, highlight solutions and raise graduation rates. For more information on how communities are addressing high school and identifying solution to keep students in school, check PBS Newshour's American Graduate page.
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The PBS Newshour is a part of American Graduate, a public media initiative to investigate the dropout issue, highlight solutions and raise graduation rates. For more information on how communities are addressing high school and identifying solution to keep students in school, check PBS Newshour's American Graduate page.
Transcript
JUDY WOODRUFF: Next, the NewsHour's special correspondent for education, John Merrow, looks at a program that offers high school dropouts college courses to make learning more challenging.
Last night, he focused on how that idea works in small specialized schools. Tonight, he takes a broader view.
This story is part of the American Graduate project.
JOHN MERROW: Here in this low-income school district on the Texas/Mexico border, superintendent Daniel King is trying something that's never been done.
DANIEL KING, Pharr-San Juan-Alamo School District superintendent: We're going to be setting a benchmark this year, and so we have 66 with an associate degree.
JOHN MERROW: He is redesigning his school system so that every one of the 31,600 students in the district will be able to graduate from high school with college credits under their belt.DANIEL KING: What we're looking at doing is do...
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