Dropout Nation
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.
- Frank Koughan
- 1h 53m
- September 25, 2012
Overview
What does it take to save a student? 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. What is clear is that massive dropout rates cripple individual career prospects and cloud the country’s future. At Houston’s Sharpstown High, once a notorious “dropout factory,” 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.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- September 25, 2012
- Original language
- English
- Production
- Left/Right,Frontline,FRONTLINE,GBH
- Director
- Frank Koughan
- Writer
- Frank Koughan
- Producer
- Frank Koughan,Kevin Vargas
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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