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¹ÏÉñapp's American Graduate Project is part of a nationwide public media conversation about the dropout crisis. We'll explore the issue through news reports, call-in programs and a forum produced with UNC-TV. Also as a part of this project we've partnered with the Durham Nativity School and YO: Durham to found the ¹ÏÉñapp Youth Radio Club. These reports are part of American Graduate-Let’s Make it Happen!- a public media initiative to address the drop out crisis, supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and these generous funders: Project Funders:GlaxoSmithKlineThe Goodnight Educational FoundationJoseph M. Bryan Foundation State FarmThe Grable FoundationFarrington FoundationMore education stories from ¹ÏÉñapp

Re-Mixing The ¹ÏÉñapp With Fresh Beats

Re-mixing the news Pierce Freelon and Stephen Levitin (aka Apple Juice Kid)

Q: What would happen if you put ¹ÏÉñapp ¹ÏÉñapp stories in the hands of youth armed with laptops and infectious hip hop beats?  

A: You'd get Re-Mixing the ¹ÏÉñapp -- it's a new project ¹ÏÉñapp launched in 2014 as a part of its .  
 
¹ÏÉñapp is teaming up with renowned beatmakers and educators Pierce Freelon and Stephen Levitin (aka Apple Juice Kid) for this special project that will engage young people in Chapel Hill over the next several months. 

Stephen, Pierce and their students will take ¹ÏÉñapp ¹ÏÉñapp stories, cut them up and re-tell them using fresh beats created in their Chapel Hill music lab.  In the end ¹ÏÉñapp and the beatmakers will distribute the re-mixed news stories virally to youth and see what happens.  Pierce Freelon and Apple Juice Kid have created labs like this all over the world.  Their work was on The World.    Here's an example of their global work:

http://youtu.be/_dTk3iiOZS8

Beat Making Lab
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Beat Making Lab

This project is a part of , a public media initiative aimed at addressing the drop out crisis.  It's made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
 
The Re-Mixing the ¹ÏÉñapp project is hosted at the Town of Chapel Hill's Beat Making Lab under the old Post Office on Franklin Street.

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