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GWEN IFILL (Newshour): We launch an 18-month focus on the nation's high school dropout rate.
The American Graduate project, a partnership with public radio and television, will examine the breadth of the problem, as well as its consequences.
The numbers are staggering. One-third of U.S. high school students don't graduate on time. And Latino and African-American boys are twice as likely to become high school dropouts, the result: higher rates of incarceration, unemployment and poverty.
Among the solutions increasingly is community involvement and high-wattage celebrity attention.
Oscar-winning film director Ron Howard joined basketball star LeBron James, singer Ashanti, and actor Denzel Washington in Washington today to unveil a new public service announcement for the Boys and Girls Clubs of America.
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