News and Documents

AAD in the News

Achievement Academy Program Sets Itself Apart - Sommer Brokaw, Triangle Tribune, Oct. 2006

Alliance for Excellent Education: Adolescent Literacy Fact Sheet - September 2010

Alliance for Excellent Education: High School Drop Outs Fact Sheet - September 2010

Alliance For Excellent Education: The Federal Role in Confronting the Crisis in Adolescent Literacy - September 2010

Achievement Academy congratulates graduates - Your Community section C-7, The Herald Sun, November, 2010

Help with Learning Brings Hope for Future Gains - Samiha Khanna, Durham News, Aug. 2007

If Dropouts Believe, Program Can Help Them Achieve - Stanley B. Chamber Jr., Durham News, Sept. 2006

Tears Flow as Troubled Dropout Accepts GED - Matthew E. Milliken, The Herald Sun, Oct. 2009

We were also featured on:

Durham’s cable program “This Week at City Hall” on October 6, 2006

Our Marketing Materials:

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Pam's Story

I had struggled for most of my life. I felt alone. I was attending Northern High School when I met up with the wrong crowd. My life which was already quite difficult started going downhill from that point. At 16 I met a man who I had two beautiful children with. This man, though, did not care about the children or me. He physically and mentally abused me for 8 years. I was shot at and beaten so many times, that my skin color changed.

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