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Short Description: Apr 10, 2006 ... (SRBI) Public Affairs designed the survey and conducted all interviewing. The full TIME/The Oprah Winfrey Show ...
Content Inside: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Monday, April 10, 2006TIME MAGAZINE AND THE OPRAH WINFREY SHOW TEAM UP TO EXAMINE THEHIGH SCHOOL DROPOUT CRISIS IN AMERICA---TIME's Cover Story: 'Dropout Nation' to Hit Newsstands Monday,April 10th---The Oprah Winfrey Show's 'Oprah's Special Report: American Schoolsin Crisis' Will Air Tuesday and Wednesday, April 11th and 12th---A Large Majority of Americans (89%) Think the High SchoolDropout Rate in the U.S. an `Extremely Serious' or `SomewhatSerious' Problem,According to TIME/The Oprah Winfrey Show PollNew York - TIME magazine and The Oprah Winfrey Show team up to examine the high school dropout crisis in America. TIME's cover story: "Dropout Nation" will hit newsstands Monday, April 10th. The Oprah Winfrey Show will air a two-part special: "Oprah's Special Report: American Schools in Crisis" on Tuesday, April 11th and Wednesday, April 12th (check local listings). The coverage sprung from a recent report that details the dropout epidemic: almost one-third of public high school students drop out in America and nearly one-half of all African Americans, Hispanics and Native Americans fail to graduate from public high school with their class. The report, "The Silent Epidemic: Perspectives of High School Dropouts," was funded by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and based on research conducted by Civic Enterprises and Peter D. Hart Research Associates. "I'm delighted to be working on this story with Oprah, since we both agree that a poorly educated America is an America without a rich future," says TIME Managing Editor Jim Kelly. TIME and The Oprah Winfrey Show have also collaborated on a joint poll. Some results include: * A large majority (89%) of Americans think the dropout rate is an "extremely serious" or "somewhat serious problem" in America. * If the public were grading U.S. public schools, about 3-in-5 (61%) would give them a grade of a "C" or less. * Six-in-ten Americans (64%) think we are spending too little money on public schools. * More than two-thirds (78%) think that lowering academic standards would be "not very effective" or "not at all effective" in keeping kids in school. * To increase the number of children graduating from high school, almost half of respondents (45%) feel it would be a "very effective" or "somewhat effective" measure to penalize the parents of students who don't finish high school.
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