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Las Vegas: Improving Graduation
In a town where dropouts earn $50,000 per year parking cars, Las Vegas schools have devised unique programs to keep students on the diploma track.
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Running Time: 4 min.
Video Credits
Produced, Written, and Directed by
- Ken Ellis
Associate Producers:
- Roberta Furger
- Miwa Yokoyama
Editor:
- Karen Sutherland
Camera Crew:
- Rob Weller
- Jeremy Settles
Narrator:
- Kris Welch
Original Music:
- Ed Bogas
Additional Footage Courtesy of
- The KLVX Communications Group
- Las Vegas Convention and Visitors Authority
- © 2004
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
- All rights reserved.
Its astonishing to learn of
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on May 30, 2007 - 20:19.
Its astonishing to learn of this fact, that in Las Vegas, without an education you can very quickly get a job that earns vast amounts of money which requires no higher thinking or understanding and no real vocational value.
I commend what this school and district are doing to combat this phenomenon and hope that politicians and other educators look up and take note that schools/education are not simply designed to create workers for the job market. It would appear that, especially in Las Vegas, they do not require an education to get a high paying, but low status job. If this continues and the concept that education is purely for jobs remains unchallenged, what would be the use of education at all?
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