American Graduate. Today's global economy demands a more educated workforce. Communities are working together to improve 21st century learning and increase high school graduation rates to prepare more students for college and successful careers. Public media stations across the country are at the center of this community-based work providing quality content, forums, and classroom resources to build local capacity for long term success.
American Graduate: Let's Make it Happen is a long term public media commitment, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, to help communities implement solutions to the high school dropout crisis. Public media plays a significant role building individual activity, community capacity, and national awareness. The dropout crisis demands attention now, and we are rising to the challenge of doing our part to address this problem. American Graduate demonstrates public media's commitment to education and its deep roots in every community it serves. College-Ready Education. In each of our areas of focus, we share research, insights, and tools with states, school districts, and other partners to help them improve teaching and learning.
We also work to foster greater collaboration so effective programs can be expanded and valuable insights and ideas from specific states, districts, and charter management organizations can be broadly shared. Teaching Teachers are vital to student learning. They want to help their students succeed, but often don’t get the feedback and support they need to do so. The Measurement of Effective Teaching project enlisted thousands of teachers to have their classes videotaped and evaluated by experts as well as students.
Teachers deserve professional development opportunities that they help shape, give them the support they need when they need it, and enable them to collaborate and share best practices. Learning More than 45 states have adopted the Common Core State Standards for student learning. Innovation. Detroit Public TV | Home. American Graduate. Readiness Program Needs Assessment September 29, 2010.