gabriel benn, director of arts, at lucy high school and founder of the hip hop literacy program a lessonhat uses hip hop to teach wide-ranging topics. a youth program assistant at d.c. bilingual public charter school where he was once a students. and yolanda long a former student at the washington middle school for girls, she's now a teacher. in the dc public school system. today on vocal point, meeting students where they are. ♪ ♪ >> the good news about education is that america's graduation rate is on the rise for the 20092010 school year, graduation rights each 72.8% the highest since 1974, the bad news, our nation's back, native american, and latino students are still graduating at far lower levels than their white and asian counterparts. and washington, d.c. public schools have some of the lowest graduation rates in the country. this means that our nongraduating students are more likely to become unemployed or end up in jail. fortunately, there are dedicated school staff, teachers, parents, community members and students, working hard to curb the drop out statistics, and making sure

gabriel benn, director of arts, at lucy high school and founder of the hip hop literacy program a lessonn that uses hip hop to teach wide-ranging topics. a youth program assistant at d.c. bilingual public charter school where he was once a students. and yolanda long a former student at the washington middle school for girls, she's now a teacher. in the dc public school system. today on vocal point, meeting students where they are. ♪ ♪ >> the good news about education is that america's graduation rate is on the rise for the 20092010 school year, graduation rights each 72.8% the highest since 1974, the bad news, our nation's back, native american, and latino students are still graduating at far lower levels than their white and asian counterparts. and washington, d.c. public schools have some of the lowest graduation rates in the country. this means that our nongraduating students are more likely to become unemployed or end up in jail. fortunately, there are dedicated school staff, teachers, parents, community members and students, working hard to curb the drop out statistics, and making s