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Education
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During two days in September 1957 several courageous students and their parents desegregated the Nashville school system. more »
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A Diagnosed Boy chronicles the story of Lars as he seeks treatment for his son Silas, who has been diagnosed with a variety of developmental disorders. After learning about the theories of Israeli professor Reuven Feuerstein, who believes one should challenge children's mental skills to help them overcome their disabilities, Lars travels to Jerusalem to learn more. more »
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The turmoil dyslexia can impose on a family is captured in this documentary of a mother’s eighteen -year struggle with the education system in an effort to get her son a good education. more »
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A charismatic but troubled youth strives for success at a strict new inner city charter school. His school has high expectations, but can it overcome the negativity of the community? more »
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China's students are marching in formation and chanting miliary slogans. But behind the closed dormitory doors at Nanjing University, they act surprisingly similar to Western students. A frank look at the generation torn between communism and capitalism. more »
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This carefully researched film celebrates the life and legacy of Peter Cooper, the remarkable 19th century inventor, industrialist and philanthropist. When business success brought wealth, Cooper used it to foster social justice. more »
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This film speaks with experts who make a strong case for beginning music education at a very early age because of its precursor to language skills. more »
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To help their children excel in the Japanese school system, parents send them to an academic boot camp that forces them to study almost around the clock. more »
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Many say Singapore has the best education system in the world. This film shows how this system has produced such amazing results and how it differs from the educational philosophy as practiced here in the U.S. more »
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Autism, a neurological disorder, affects as many as one in 150 children in the U.S., yet is the least funded of disabilities. By following six families with autistic children for two years, this film takes us inside the world of autism specifically at the Eden II School, in Staten Island, New York. There, the filmmakers gained unique access to children like Sarah, Aaron and Benjamin, triplets who all showed severely autistic symptoms at eighteen months. more »
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Four year old Robin, who is autistic, has been mainstreamed into a normal school. This film follows his progress, as well as the satisfaction his teacher’s take in his achievement. more »
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Someone Sang for Me profiles the critically acclaimed African-American singer and music educator Jane Sapp. Since 1989 Sapp has been based in Springfield, Massachusetts, where her music workshops with "at risk" youth are changing lives and animating the community. more »
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This is the story of St. Augustine's, a Catholic school in the South Bronx. The school's pastor and a gifted music teacher committed the school to a curriculum specializing in the arts with remarkably positive results. more »
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Dr. Chen Ho Yun is a gifted violinist who teaches violin after school to young people in South Central L.A. This charming film shows children from the ghetto taking pride in their accomplishment in learning a challenging instrument. more »
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In a rural village of southwestern China a bevy of young girls yearn for an education. Their parents are poor and mostly illiterate; going to school costs money the families can ill afford. more »
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The focus in this film is the social dynamics of a fifth grade class in Jerusalem. Here we meet Omnri, an unwilling outcast who tries to fit himself into a puzzle of competition and conformity. more »
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In the impoverished black townships outside Cape Town, South Africa, everyone knows that the only way to improve one's life is to go to university and get a good job. And the only way to do that is to pass the challenging series of examinations known as Matric. more »
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This film looks at the dramatic change in the kinds of toys available to children. Several noted psychologists, including Dr. Jerome Kagan, offer their views on the effect of toys on children’s behavior. more »
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Why do so many children have such a hard time learning to read? What is at stake for them? Who can help them? This revealing documentary makes the important connection between early trouble with reading and serious behavioral problems in the classroom. more »
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From the "Nature of Things" series, this film investigates how babies become bilingual, how school children fare in language immersion classes, and how adults cope with learning foreign languages. more »
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