{"id":392,"date":"2012-03-23T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T01:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=392"},"modified":"2018-02-01T00:44:31","modified_gmt":"2018-02-01T00:44:31","slug":"the-dropout-crisis-from-castlemont-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/03\/23\/the-dropout-crisis-from-castlemont-high\/","title":{"rendered":"KQED Radio Forum Program: The Dropout Crisis; From Castlemont High"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-393 size-medium\" title=\"Students_town Hall\" src=\"http:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-800x532.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"532\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-800x532.jpg 800w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-160x106.jpg 160w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-1180x785.jpg 1180w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-960x639.jpg 960w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-240x160.jpg 240w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-375x250.jpg 375w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall-520x346.jpg 520w, https:\/\/cdn.kqed.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/52\/2012\/03\/Students_town-Hall.jpg 1800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Forum: American Graduate Radio Special<\/p>\n<p>Nearly one-quarter of American high school students drop out before they graduate. In Oakland, the problem is even worse: more than 35 percent of high school students in the city don&#8217;t reach graduation. Dropouts are exposed to an uncertain future with higher rates of crime, poverty and health problems than their peers with diplomas. In a special live broadcast from Oakland&#8217;s Castlemont High School, we discuss the dropout challenge with educators and students. Listen and learn more about this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kqed.org\/a\/forum\/R201203220900\">debate<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forum: American Graduate Radio Special Nearly one-quarter of American high school students drop out before they graduate. In Oakland, the problem is even worse: more than 35 percent of high school students in the city don&#8217;t reach graduation. Dropouts are exposed to an uncertain future with higher rates of crime, poverty and health problems than &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/03\/23\/the-dropout-crisis-from-castlemont-high\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">KQED Radio Forum Program: The Dropout Crisis; From Castlemont High<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1868,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions\/1868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}