Atlantic Exchange

Atlantic Exchange featuring Jim Shelton

September 28, 2015
Washington, D.C.

Hosted at The Watergate, Atlantic Exchanges offer insights and perspectives as told by the leading voices of education, technology, business, policy and culture in conversation with The Atlantic’s editorial talent. For this event, Washington Editor-at-Large Steve Clemons interviewed Jim Shelton about education, the high school dropout crisis and the solutions that are working to keep our nation’s children on track to graduation.

This event was presented in connection with the Washington Ideas Forum.

With thanks to our underwriters at WNET New York Public Media and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, in celebration of American Graduate Day 2015. Join the conversation on Facebook and Twitter with #AmGrad.

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