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Dropout nation

Call Number

  • DVD 373.12913 D786 (CEN)

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Languages

English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publication Information

[Boston] : WGBH Educational Foundation : PBS Distribution, c2012.

Physical Description

1 videodisc (ca. 120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Every year, hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the United States quit high school without diplomas--an epidemic so out of control that nobody knows the exact number. This documentary examines one semester at Houston's Sharpstown High, once a notorious "dropout factory," where a high-stakes experiment is under way to rescue students from the edge.

Notes

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on PBS in 2012 as an episode of the television series Frontline.

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