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Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
Français
Description
The one-room schoolhouse, where one teacher instructs several grades at once, is generally regarded a quaint thing of the past and a symbol of obsolete and ineffective teaching methods. However, TO BE AND TO HAVE offers an in-depth look at a small school in rural France where one remarkable man has been doing the job of a small teaching staff for 20 years, and has taught several generations of bright and capable children along the way. Nominated for...
Publisher
Media Policy Center
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Children living in fractured homes and poverty can’t achieve equally with children who are financially and emotionally secure. Underserved children need extra services to be competitive. Equal is not Equitable. We illustrate this point in Duluth, MN, Boston, MA, Springfield, MO, and Nashville, TN. A grade school offers wrap-around-services including free food, family meals, clothing
43) Planet Earth
Series
How and why volume 1
Publisher
Distributed by MediaPro
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking documentary series for students, encompassing an assortment of diverse scientific fields, presenting knowledge in a fun-to-learn and easy to understand format.
44) Dinosaurs
Series
How and why volume 6
Publisher
Distributed by MediaPro
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking documentary series for students, encompassing an assortment of diverse scientific fields, presenting knowledge in a fun-to-learn and easy to understand format.
45) Volcanoes
Series
How and why volume 2
Publisher
Distributed by MediaPro
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking documentary series for students, encompassing an assortment of diverse scientific fields, presenting knowledge in a fun-to-learn and easy to understand format.
Publisher
Premiere Digital
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
After failing to find their place in the educational status quo, a rogue adventurer, an aspiring artist, and a student struggling for self-acceptance abandon conventional high schools to join unique classrooms and receive an education reimagined. With insights from experts and world leaders, A CURE FOR THE COMMON CLASSROOM explores what is possible when schools evolve from antiquated process to modern purpose.
47) Fail State
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Executive produced by news legend Dan Rather, FAIL STATE investigates the dark side of American higher education, chronicling the decades of policy decisions in Washington, D.C. that have given rise to a powerful and highly-predatory for-profit college industry. With echoes of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the film lays bare how for-profit colleges exploit millions of low-income and minority students, leaving them with worthless degrees and drowning...
48) Night School
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Indianapolis has one of the lowest high school graduation rates in the country. Victims of circumstance and a broken system, Greg, Melissa, and Shynika are optimistic that they won't end up on the wrong side of statistics. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. Winner of the Grand Prize and Audience Award for Best Documentary Feature at the **Heartland Film Festival**. Winner of the Jury Prize for Best Directing at the **BendFilm Festival**....
Publisher
Loudspeaker Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
This film examines Oakland's evolution through the eyes of social entrepreneurs determined that youth of color not be left on the sidelines as Silicon Valley spreads into the home of the second largest black community in California. Kalimah Priforce, whose first activism was a hunger strike at age eight, and Kimberly Bryant, a successful engineer turned founder of Black Girls Code, are organizing large-scale hackathons preparing youth to redesign...
50) When We Fight
Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the second largest school district in the United States, 98% of teachers vote to authorize a strike. From strike vote to contract vote, WHEN WE FIGHT goes behind the picket lines, documenting how and why teachers strike. The film shadows Los Angeles teachers for five months as they organize and strike, providing a unique first-hand account of collective democracy and labor action, and shedding light on the teacher strike upswell across the world....
51) We Could Be King
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
True story of two rival high school football teams forced to merge into one and their struggle to become champions against all odds. An unflinching snapshot of the power of sports to bring young people, neighborhoods, and a city together. Winner of Outstanding Sports Documentary at the **Sports Emmy Awards**. Official Selection at the **Tribeca Film Festival**. *"This documentary is a real eye-opener, one that any fan of football, high school athletics...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Since the 1940's, classroom films have aimed at tutoring young adolescents on subjects such as sexual development, the importance of fitting in, and juvenile delinquency, all in tidy, ten-minute sermons disguised as dramas. This collection illustrates social norms from post-WWII America.
54) Trees
Series
How and why volume 6
Publisher
Distributed by MediaPro
Pub. Date
p2005
Language
English
Description
A groundbreaking documentary series for students, encompassing an assortment of diverse scientific fields, presenting knowledge in a fun-to-learn and easy to understand format.
Publisher
New Deal Films, Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
An hour-long documentary by Mary Lance and Ben Daitz, focusing on the libraries in the rural New Mexico communities of Abiquiu, Datil, Dixon, El Rito, Glenwood, Jemez Pueblo, and Magdalena. Rural libraries mean books, but so much more. They offer free internet access in areas that have no service. They provide GED, STEM, coding, tutoring, and after school programs. Rural libraries host community events and meetings, help folks with computer access...
56) Wrestle
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
*Hoop Dreams* goes to the mat in this intimate, coming-of-age documentary about four members of a high-school wrestling team at Huntsville’s J.O. Johnson High School, a longstanding entry on Alabama’s list of failing schools. Coached by teacher Chris Scribner, teammates Jailen, Jamario, Teague, and Jaquan each face challenges far beyond a shot at the State Championship: splintered family lives, drug use, teenage pregnancy, mental health struggles,...
Publisher
Psychotherapy.net
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
What’s a day in the life of a school social worker like? This video takes us intimately into the lives of two school social workers, one working in a suburban area and the other in a city. The video’s documentary style allows you to witness minute-by-minute interactions with students, teachers, and other staff, and to see how school social workers are involved in every level of systems: micro, mezzo and macro. Through touching interviews with...
58) Defining US
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
This Documentary takes us inside the nations largest schools and to the front lines of a divisive war over race, education and national identity.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anne and Kim are very different culturally and in their work styles. Kim is annoyed by Anne's attitude, insensitive comments and fashion clothes. Anne, who is new, feels that Kim does not fit in well, and is frustrated by her messy desk and personal hygiene issues. Their relationship is spinning out of control. Anne takes the lead and sets up an open discussion where they give each other feedback, discuss their differences and come to a resolution...
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