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Need To Know | Dropping in | PBS

Duration: 10:27
Program: Need to Know #232
Broadcast Date: Apr. 6, 2012

Need to Know travels to Philadelphia to examine the city's ambitious plan to reach out to and re-engage high school dropouts. The story is part of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting's "American Graduate" initiative.

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