Dropout Nation

Name: Dropout Nation
Genre: Talk & Interview, News, Documentary
Released: September 25, 2012

Frontline: Season 30: Episode 22

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PBS | Air Date: September 25, 2012

Summary: The stories of four at-risk students at Houston's Sharpstown High School, a once-notorious "dropout factory," and the teachers, counselors and principal who are trying to keep them in school. It's a tough task for reasons that often travel beyond school grounds. One attends school only to play football; another's mother is in and out ofThe stories of four at-risk students at Houston's Sharpstown High School, a once-notorious "dropout factory," and the teachers, counselors and principal who are trying to keep them in school. It's a tough task for reasons that often travel beyond school grounds. One attends school only to play football; another's mother is in and out of prison; the third, a young mother, often has no place to sleep at night; and the fourth, whose father was deported, works at night to help support his family.… Expand

Genre(s): Talk & Interview, News, Documentary

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S30:E23. Poor Kids
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S30:E22. The Suicide Plan
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S30:E22. Dropout Nation
Air Date: September 25, 2012

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