The Education of Omarina

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Documentaries, Pbs, Tv & Film, Wgbh, Frontline

4.6 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 14 September 2016

⏱️ 27 minutes

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The Education of Omarina continues a story FRONTLINE has been following since 2012 — showing how an innovative program to stem the high school dropout crisis has affected one girl’s journey, from a public middle school in the Bronx to an elite New England private school, and now on to college.

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0:00.0	This is an audio cast of the Frontline segment,
0:02.8	the Education of Omarina, broadcast September 13th on PBS.
0:07.8	Music
0:23.8	Tonight on Frontline, Education in America.
0:26.8	We've been checking in on Omarina since middle school,
0:29.8	where a dedicated group of educators
0:31.8	helped to turn her life around.
0:33.8	But even more amazing, they stuck with her.
0:37.8	No one in my immediate family has graduated high school and gone into college.
0:41.8	However, I believe I'll be the first one,
0:43.8	and they'll be excited and thrilled and they'll be proud of what I've become.
0:47.8	The Education of Omarina on this special edition of Frontline.
0:59.8	Frontline is made possible by contributions to your PBS station
1:03.8	from viewers like you.
1:04.8	Thank you, and by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1:08.8	Major support for Frontline is provided by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation,
1:13.8	committed to building more just, verdant, and peaceful world.
1:16.8	More information is available at Macfound.org.
1:19.8	Additional support is provided by the Park Foundation,
1:22.8	dedicated to heightening public awareness of critical issues.
1:26.8	The John and Helen Glesner Family Trust,
1:28.8	supporting trustworthy journalism that informs and inspires.
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