#nprgrad

NPR's education team hand-picked more than 300 commencement speeches dating back to 1774 and compiled them into a database that's searchable by name, school, year and theme.

Good morning everyone!

Today the Education Blog is launching! Reporters Juana Summers and Anya Kamenetz have sent along some sample tweets. Feel free to use any of them — and please use Juana and Anya’s Twitter handles (Anya is @anya1anya and Juana is @jmsummers.)

  Blog intro post:  Education has to be something more than regurgitating the past, but what? Anya Kamenetz writes on our focus – covering learning and education from birth, through the workplace and beyond. 

  ·         Suggested tweet: What do you think is the biggest challenge facing education right now? Tell @npr_ed: http://n.pr/ed

  Commencement Database, launched in conjunction with the NPR Viz team: http://apps.npr.org/commencement/

  We’ve hand-picked more than 300 commencement speeches dating back to 1774 and compiled them into a social, dynamic, visually-engaging database. Audience members can share images of key quotes from each speech, search for speeches by speaker name, school or year, and sort speeches by category. (Hashtag: #NPRgrad) 

·         Suggested Tweet 1: .@NPR’s new CEO told @USC grads that failure can be your friend. Check out his speech and 300+more http://apps.npr.org/commencement/speech/jarl-mohn-usc-annenberg-school-for-communication-journalism-2009/ #nprgrad

  ·         Suggested Tweet 2: Don’t remember your commencement speaker? We’ve got you covered.http://apps.npr.org/commencement/ #nprgrad

·         Suggested Facebook post: YouTube has rocked the commencement speaker circuit. Our look at what’s changed and what’s stayed the same: n.pr/1lEfjat #nprgrad

·         Suggested Facebook post 2: In: Kindness. Out: History. Here’s our look at what’s trending in graduation speeches n.pr/1lEfjat #nprgrad

  ·         Suggested Tweet: YOLO is the new carpe diem, and 12 other things we learned from graduation speakers #nprgrad: n.pr/1lEfjat