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  • May 18, 2012

American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen
National Launch from St. Louis


National Initiative Launched From St. Louis with Teacher Town Hall Broadcast From the Nine Network

The national launch of American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen occured in St. Louis on November 7, 2011, with a live broadcast of an American Graduate Teacher Town Hall moderated by Gwen Ifill, senior correspondent for PBS NewsHour and moderator and managing editor of Washington Week.

More than 100 area teachers participated in the St. Louis Teacher Town Hall, the first in a series being conducted in cities across the country. The Teacher Town Halls serves as a catalyst to generate new conversations about education today and the realities faced by America’s teachers. The St. Louis Teacher Town Hall was also streamed nationwide, and segments were featured on PBS NewsHour.

Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, was in St. Louis for the launch event to emphasize the critical importance of American Graduate: Let’s Make It Happen and the national effort to improve graduation rates in communities across the country.

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  • http://www.facebook.com/elbryant1226 Edward Bryant

    I am concerned that the program introduction characterized the “front lines” as the classroom. As a parent, I think the true front-line is the. Home and community are not in the primary business of helping teachers “do their jobs.” Teachers and schools should see themselves as having the role of working with parents, in partnership, to accomplish the particular goals of educating our community’s children. 

    • http://twitter.com/TedDaridMauro ED101

      I would call that the homefront – the source of winning and losing – when the homefront is lost the war is lost. The frontlines are the classroom – where it all comes together. Where community is formed and the future is made.

      • Anonymous

        I hear you, but again, as a parent, it seems to me the converation should be between parents and teachers, not just teachers talking with one another and describing the “problem.” It seems to me the truly valueable conversation, one that has the potential to move things forward, should be between the people who should have the most at stake – parents and teachers.

  • Videodesk

    Provocative broadcast. Will the video stream be archived somewhere?

  • Rebecca

    I missed the live stream. Can I watch the video online anywhere?

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