Programming

Public Media Is
Responding
To The High School
Dropout Crisis

Public Media launched the first-ever AMERICAN GRADUATE DAY on September 22, 2012. The multi-platform event featured local and national programming, partners, and celebrities focused on improving high school graduation rates in America.

Watch the full 7-hour national public television broadcast below.

HOUR 1

Pat Harrison, CPB President and CEO, and Michael Powell, Co-Chair of Grad Nation, America's Promise Alliance, kick off American Graduate Day with PBS NewsHour senior correspondent Ray Suarez. Also featuring American Graduate Day Champions: United Way; 52nd Street Project; Big Brothers Big Sisters; Rise Up and Walk

HOUR 2
Featuring American Graduate Day Champions: buildOn; Harlem RBI; PAL NYC; Civic Enterprises; Communities in Schools; Young Audiences New York

HOUR 3
Featuring American Graduate Day Champions: Jumpstart; Mayor’s Interagency Task Force on Truancy, Chronic Absenteeism & School Engagement; Counseling in Schools; Reel Works

HOUR 4

Featuring American Graduate Day Champions: Horizons National; NAACP; Partnership with Children; Girls Inc.; America Scores

HOUR 5

Featuring American Graduate Day Champions: Freedom Writers; Little Kids Rock; After-School All-Stars; CFY; Robin Hood Foundation

HOUR 6

Featuring American Graduate Day Champions: City Year; Children's Aid Society; Boys & Girls Clubs of America; Change for Kids

HOUR 7

Featuring American Graduate Day Champions: National Council of La Raza (NCLR); YMCA; Good Shepherd Services; YouthBuild; Mercy College

Learn More About the Partners Featured on this Broadcast

Become a Champion of American Graduate

Listen to Left Behind, Dropping Out from WNPR

Hosts and Special Guests

Michael Powell	JuJu Chang	Brian Williams
Ray Suarez	Stone Phillips	Zoraida Sambolin
Maria Hinajosa	Pat Harrison	Darrin Smith
Chris Canty	Mark Teixeira	Bridget Moynahan
Misty Copeland	Tia Carrere