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33208s Alternative education: choices beyond the public school system Behold humanity! a sociological perspective Careers (New York, N.Y.) Complete career & techincal education library ; Volume 1 Complete career clusters Evolution of society Making schools work Net.LEARNING School: The Story of American Public EducationSummary: To help improve the odds of being accepted by America's most desirable colleges and universities, increasing numbers of high school students are getting a jump on the competition by applying for early admission. This ABC News program looks at the controversial process and contrasts it with Georgetown University's nonbinding early action alternative. The marketing efforts of Georgetown-and of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In 1900, 6% of America's children graduated from high school; by 1945, 51% graduated and 40% went on to college. This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey's progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Zaki al-Arsuzi School is a girls-only secondary school. Jaramana School is a boys-only middle school. Focusing on two new students-Du'aa, a teenage Muslim girl who has transferred to secular Zaki al-Arsuzi from a Sharia school, and Yusif, a teenage Christian boy from Iraq who is attending Jaramana as a war refugee-this program maps their experiences against the broader picture of Syrian...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist Clarence Page hosts this in-depth look at a grassroots revolution in American education: charter schools. Reasons for the movement's emergence, as well as different philosophies and methodologies, are seen in visits to several charter schools, including North Star Academy in Newark, KIPP Academy in Houston, and the Vaughn Next Century Learning Center in Los...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: From the executive producers of Super Size Me and Director Sara Sackner, this program examines the deplorable atrophy of arts education in America's classrooms by contrasting the crisis with the story of one very dedicated, inspiring high school drama teacher: Jay W. Jensen, who over a 50-year career touched the lives of many with the transformational power of the arts. Renowned pupils-actor...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2007
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Summary: In 1957, the eyes of America were on Little Rock, where the compulsory desegregation of Central High School was front-page news. But what about the broader picture? How successful had integration efforts in the South been in the three years following the Brown decision? This program, filmed in that year, brings together a panel of newsmen from the Southern Education Reporting Service to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: This program follows three outstanding teachers throughout the school day to show how they motivate students. We see the classroom skills that help make them great teachers-charisma, concern, perseverance, and enthusiasm-and how they impart self-esteem to their students. These instructors teach Social Studies, English, and Special Education.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Over the course of this three-segment program, ABC News anchor Ted Koppel tracks the progress of Lesley-Diann Jones' combined class of fourth- and fifth-graders, from opening day in September to February 1st, when the students re-took the state English exam that they had failed the previous year. Amidst Ms. Jones' efforts to help her students improve their learning and test-taking abilities,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Summary: Why don't we get the best out of people? Author/educator Sir Ken Robinson argues that it's because we've been educated to become good workers instead of creative thinkers. In this TEDTalk, Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that cultivates creativity and acknowledges multiple types of intelligence. An excellent discussion-starter in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Recent statistics indicate that more than two million students in the U.S. are taught at home. Why are so many parents opting to educate their children themselves? Are they wary of violence in public schools? Do they lack confidence in what they perceive as a one-size-fits-all approach to learning? Or are they intent on adding a fourth R, religion, to the traditional three? This program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Historically, America has displayed an ambivalence toward public school teachers, expecting much from them while frequently offering little respect, meager pay, and inadequate working conditions. This program traces the evolution of teaching as a profession, honoring educators who risked everything to stand up for teachers' rights. Stanford University's Linda Darling-Hammond; Lorraine Monroe,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: To run a successful parent-teacher conference, educators need a wide range of skills at their disposal—and a healthy supply of confidence. This video builds both, providing solutions to the problems and frustrations that many teachers face when interacting with parents and guardians. The program explores step-by-step preparation strategies—including specific knowledge and data to have at hand,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Directly or indirectly, people working in the education and social services fields make their living by helping others live better lives. This program profiles a preschool teacher, a vocational education instructor, and a school administrative assistant as well as a drug and alcohol abuse counselor, a social and human services assistant, and a recreation worker. Correlates to all applicable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2009
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Summary: Use this ABC News program to explore links between a wide range of educational issues: school safety, overcrowding, privatization, and poor academic performance. The video takes viewers inside Chester High, a Pennsylvania school racked with security, staffing, and financial problems; in fact, Chester's difficulties are so great that the company hired to run the school has pulled out. With...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: This program provides an overview of the history of education and distance learning, including an extensive interview with Professor Neil Postman from the first television classroom of the 1950s, Sunrise Semester. From there, the program explores various case studies involving distance learning: a homeless women gets her GED; a handicapped woman graduates from college; and a choreographer puts...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2010
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Summary: James Comer, M.D., M.P.H., has spent decades promoting a focus on child development as a way of improving schools. In this interview, he and Hedrick Smith analyze the Comer Process, a school- and system-wide psychosocial intervention grounded in conflict mitigation, behavior modeling, power-sharing, and all-around involvement of teachers, parents, students, and other stakeholders. "Our program...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this interview, Anthony Alvarado, the dynamic architect of controversial principal-centered educational reforms in New York City and San Diego schools, and Eric Smith, Ed.D., who has risen to national prominence as superintendent of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg and Anne Arundel County school districts, join Hedrick Smith to describe their methodologies and examine the results of their policies...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: Historically, student progress has been gauged by success in subjects that tap the verbal/linguistic and logical/mathematical talents of students, inevitably leading to the disenfranchisement of learners weak in these areas. In this program, David Lazear, author of Seven Ways of Knowing and Seven Ways of Teaching and founder of New Dimensions of Learning, contends that educators must ensure the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In theory, America's public schools provide an equal-opportunity education for children of all walks of life. Unfortunately, in practice it does not always work out that way. For many families, charter schools and voucher systems are providing what they feel are the keys to better education. This program looks at these alternatives at the Countryside Charter School and elsewhere, demonstrating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: In this TEDTalk, philosopher and scientist Daniel Dennett calls for religion - all religion - to be taught in schools so it can be addressed as a natural phenomenon. He then takes on Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life, disputing its claim that to be moral, one must deny evolution. Dennett sums up his recent work with this statement: "You might say it's about the reverse engineering of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006
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Summary: In this TEDTalk, Geoff Mulgan gives a short introduction to the U.K.'s Studio School, an innovative facility where small teams of students learn by working on projects that are, as Mulgan puts it, "for real." The Studio School aims to address two problems: bored teens who see no relationship between what they learn in school and future jobs, and employers who complain that recent graduates are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2011
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Summary: In 1983, the Reagan Administration's report, A Nation at Risk, shattered public confidence in America's school system and sparked a new wave of education reform. This program explores the impact of the "free market" experiments that ensued, from vouchers and charter schools to privatization-all with the goal of meeting tough new academic standards. Today, the debate rages on: do these diverse...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Careers in education are not only rewarding for those who pursue them but vital to society as a whole-without educators and teachers, there would be no doctors, plumbers, lawyers, or electricians. This video presents four distinct occupations in the field: elementary teachers, teacher's aides, administrators, and librarians. People working in these jobs discuss their responsibilities and what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2005
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Summary: Plato's academy was the first formal arena for education, where young men were tutored in the rigors of logic, philosophy, and mathematics. Prior to this, societies transmitted knowledge from one generation to the next orally, and after the advent of writing, through texts. Although education throughout history has been predominantly a privilege of the elite, universal education is currently...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2006