PUBLIC BROADCASTING ATLANTA (PBA) IS SET TO HOST A COMMUNITY EXPERT
FORUM ON BEHALF OF AMERICAN GRADUATE: LET’S MAKE IT HAPPEN.
This Drop-Out Prevention
Initiative will provide parents, educators and students with indicators and
solutions to increase the high school graduation rate.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA February 22nd-
American Graduate: Let’s Make it
Happen will
host a panel of experts, advocates, and supporters allowing them to assist
parents, teachers, and community stakeholders with essential information and
behaviors they can use to aid in increasing the number of students that
graduate high school. This event will be
held at D.M. Therrell High School, at 3099 Panther Trail SW, Atlanta, Georgia,
30311 on March 28, 2013 from 6:00 pm until 7:30 pm.
American
Graduate is a multi-year public media initiative, supported by the Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (CPB), to help local communities identify and
implement solutions to the high school dropout crisis. Public broadcasting has
a long history improving educational outcomes for high-need students and
communities.
Public
Broadcasting Atlanta, 90.1, and more than
75 public radio and television stations in over 30 states have launched
on-the-ground efforts to keep students on- track to high school graduation and
be prepared for college and career. There will be an
exhibit on display showing the work of some of the students who have
participated in the Digital Media Arts Club. This exhibit will highlight their pictures and
capture their voices as they tell the story of the American Graduate/Systemic
Health Initiative in Education.
American Graduate engages and empowers teachers, parents and
students to help those most at risk of dropping out through community collaborations and classroom resources. By putting faces with the
numbers- the more than one million
young people who fail to graduate each year are able to receive resources to
assist in obtaining their high school diploma. This initiative increases awareness and
understanding of the risks and solutions through national and local content, covering all facets of the issue
for broadcast, web and mobile platforms.
This
event is open to the public.
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