Dropout Nation
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Dropout Nation
Language
eng
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videorecording
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Dropout Nation
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1035091714
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Originally produced by PBS in 2012
Runtime
113
Summary
What does it take to save a student? Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States quit high school without diplomas {u2013} an epidemic so out of control that nobody knows the exact number. What is clear is that massive dropout rates cripple individual career prospects and cloud the country{u2019}s future.. At Houston{u2019}s Sharpstown High, once a notorious 2dropout factory,3 a high-stakes experiment is underway to rescue students from the edge. FRONTLINE spent a semester immersed in Sharpstown High to produce an unforgettable portrait of four students in crisis and the teachers, counselors, and principal waging a daily, personal struggle to get them to graduation. A troubling and inspiring journey through the maze of an inner city high school, DROPOUT NATION investigates the causes, challenges, and potential solutions of a national emergency
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live action
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