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... forth. JOSH ARONSON: Serving more than 2000 students with a budget of 2.5 million dollars, the mostly privately funded Harmony Project is filling a gap in low-income areas where schools have cut music education programs. Students get at least 5 hours of music classes and rehearsals each week ...
... was thus a huge portion of the population with the capacity, but not the opportunity, for greater educational achievement. Today, the U.S. high school graduation rate is about 75 percent (down from a peak of about 80 percent in 1960), and roughly 40 percent of young adults are enrolled ...
... among the two major political parties, with 82 percent of Democrats favoring tougher gun measures, but just 27 percent of Republicans saying the same. The gap in those numbers could foreshadow trouble ahead as debate on gun legislation moves forward. The major breakthrough Wednesday came from the announcement that Sens ...
... And under that plan, the freshman class at U.T. only had 4.5 percent African-Americans, despite a 11 percent, 12 percent, 13 percent graduation rate from high school. And so there was a measurable and appreciable gap that led to students on campus feeling racially isolated and feeling ...
... to keep students from losing ground over the summer. Last night, we looked at a Rhode Island school district's attempts to close the achievement gap between rich and poor. Tonight, we head across the country to Seattle. A nonprofit group there runs a year-round program which aims even ...
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The results from a new global survey show U.S. students are falling behind much of the world in reading, math and science. Gwen Ifill speaks with Education Secretary Arne Duncan about the results and the the state of American schools.
President Obama shone a spotlight on community colleges Tuesday as the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation announced that it would donate $35 million to help improve graduation rates and job-training programs. Philanthropist Melinda Gates talks to Judy Woodruff about the effort.
Recent studies of NCAA programs suggest that colleges need to do more to ensure their student-athletes graduate, rather than simply generate revenue and attention for their schools. The NewsHour takes a closer look at the issue.
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