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[2018]
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English
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"Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Born to survivalists in the mountains of Idaho, she prepared for the end of the world by stockpiling home-canned peaches and sleeping with her "head-for-the-hills bag." In the summer she stewed herbs for her mother, a midwife and healer, and in the winter she salvaged in her father's junkyard. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Saigon during the Vietnam War, Larry La developed a high tolerance for risk and an ability to dream of a better future. He did this in the face of myriad horrors and losses, which would have caused most people to lose hope. He learned English early in life and taught himself how to obtain necessary items and make connections in the black market. La relied upon these attributes when he moved to the United States and worked his way up...
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English
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Finland has transformed its public school system to one that consistently produces some of the world's best students. Its students spend less time in the classroom than any other industrialized nation and the government spends $3,000 dollars less per student than the United States. Learn the secrets behind their success and how America might incorporate the methodology on this episode of Dan Rather Reports.
5) An education
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
In the early 1960's, 16-year-old Jenny Mellor lives with her parents in a London suburb. She is smart, pretty, and working toward her goal of being accepted into Oxford. Her life will take a big turn when she meets David, a man twice her age. Now she must decide if she will pursue an education at Oxford, or if she will choose to learn all that a charismatic, older man can teach her.
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English
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Journalist Dan Rather uncovers the poor state of Detroit Public Schools in Michigan. Investigating the mismanagement, deficit, and high turnover rates of superintendents via interviews with the school board, former superintendent Dr. Connie Calloway, and Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb, Rather discovers the situation is bleak in Detroit for the city's children. Over the course of eighteen months, Rather finds the failure of DPS to be a top-down...
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the Revolution, a newly independent America confronted one of its most daunting challenges: how to build a united nation out of thirteen disparate colonies. This program profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferson and continued by Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and others to create a common system of tax-supported schools that would mix people of different backgrounds and reinforce the bonds of democracy. A wealth...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In Camden, NJ, per pupil spending was more than $25,000 in 2013, making it one of the highest spending districts in the nation. But all that extra money has not changed the fact that Camden’s public schools are among in the worst in the nation, notorious for their abysmal test scores, the frequent occurrence of in-school violence, dilapidated buildings, and an on-time graduation rate of just 61 percent. This is the story of how Camden became one...
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English
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President Barack Obama calls for a recommitment to educate scientists and engineers, but there is a surplus of highly qualified PhDs who will never get the jobs they spent over a decade training to do. Dan Rather speaks to PhDs who cannot find full time professor positions, PhDs who decided to make a career change, and the president of Princeton University who describes why we are overproducing PhDs in this episode of Dan Rather Reports.
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
The political and economic turmoil of Europe drove millions to leave their countries of origin and emigrate to the U.S. where a lady held a welcoming lamp "beside the Golden Door." This ABC News program anchored by Peter Jennings tells the dramatic story of the transformation of America into a truly multicultural nation, from the teeming ethnic neighborhoods of New York to the black migration to northern cities during the Great Depression. Also discussed...
11) Bad education
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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The beloved superintendent of New York's Roslyn school district and his staff, friends and relatives become the prime suspects in the unfolding of the single largest public school embezzlement scandal in American history.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Education has powered South Korea's stunning economic success. A country once shackled by mass illiteracy now tops academic league tables. But as North Asia Correspondent Matthew Carney reports, its stressed out students also rank as the unhappiest in the developed world.
Series
Pub. Date
[2005], c2000
Language
English
Description
This program addresses teachers' efforts to level the educational and social playing fields for their students by examining public school reform and its relationship to social change. Educators who taught on the western frontier in the late 19th century and in the South during desegregation are spotlighted, along with contemporary instructors working with Native Americans in New Mexico and inner-city youth in New York. Visionaries including Joseph...
Pub. Date
[2008], c2007
Language
English
Description
Do American schools adequately prepare students to take part in society? Can a complacent, ill-informed public trace its problems back to the nation's classrooms? This program examines the impact of the No Child Left Behind Act on the ability of public education to involve students in civic and governmental processes. Filmed in economically and culturally diverse schools, the program includes provocative interviews with teachers, administrators, and...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
This classic episode of the U.S. Army's The Big Picture television series focuses on the education of its ranks. From its inception, the Army has stressed in its training those qualities which make a man a good soldier: courage, perseverance, discipline. But in a broadening era of science and discovery, when increasing demands are made on the citizen's ability simply to understand the facts that dominate his life, the bearing of arms also becomes...
Pub. Date
[2006], c2002
Language
English
Description
Charles Best is a Bronx high school teacher with a big idea: DonorsChoose. In this ABC News program, Best talks with correspondent Michel Martin about his Web site where carefully reviewed curricular activities proposed by New York City public school teachers are posted for civic-minded citizens to fund. The beauty of this nonprofit business model is its low overhead: the teachers handle assessing the needs and designing the activities, while the...
Pub. Date
[2007], c2007
Language
English
Description
Although hatred of the Jewish people is often found at the margins of society, anti-Semitism appears to be approaching a groundswell in many parts of the world. This program examines the phenomenon at institutional and grassroots levels, focusing primarily on the Middle East and the complex history behind its conflicts. Viewers will encounter several provocative ideas about Islamic anti-Semitism and the attitudes Jews and Muslims have developed concerning...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In 1954, one of the most significant Supreme Court decisions of the twentieth Century aimed to end school segregation in the United States. Although known as Brown v. Board of Education, the ruling applied not just to the case of Linda Carol Brown, an African American third grader refused entry to an all-white Topeka, Kansas school, but to cases involving children in South Carolina, Delaware, Virginia, and Washington, DC. Here is the story of the...
Pub. Date
[2013], c2000
Language
English
Description
Amy, a sixteen-year-old expelled from her high school, thinks alternative education is the best thing to happen to her; Lolita takes her daughter, Jana, to a charter school, despite the inconvenience, because she believes in the curriculum. The first half of this NewsHour program on new patterns in education looks at a special breed of alternative school where disruptive students benefit from low teacher-pupil ratios and an emphasis on individualized...
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