Videos on the Social Sciences

The Art of teaching the arts a workshop for high school teachers c2005

Kaye S Lavine, Miriam Lewin, Reynelda Muse, Lavine Production Group, Education Development Center, and Annenberg/CPB

A professional development workshop for use by high school dance, music, theatre, and visual art teachers that examines how principles of good teaching are carried out in teaching the arts. 4 videodiscs (464 min.) :

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Becoming Elsa 2009

"Elsa Leo-Rhynie retired from the University of the West Indies at Mona, Kingston Jamaica as Principal of this campus. This film traces her life as Jamaican born woman who was committed to teaching and to the value of education, a scholar and friend who inspired a tremendous respect among those with whom she worked, among the members of her family and close friends." --Container. 1 videodisc (19 min.)

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Best kept secret 2012

"JFK High School, located in a run-down area in Newark, New Jersey, is a public school for all types of students with special education needs. Janet Mino has taught her class of young men with autism for four years. When they all graduate, they will leave the security of the public school system forever. Best Kept Secret follows Ms. Mino and her students over the year and a half before graduation. The clock is ticking to find them a place in the adult world--a job or rare placement in a recreational center--so they do not end up where their predecessors have, sitting at home, institutionalized, or on the streets"--Container. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

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Cultural inclusion supporting children to value diversity and challenge racial prejudice c2003

Karen Campbell, Diversity in Child Care Queensland Inc, Diversity in Child Care Queensland Inc, and Statewide Transcultural Training and Resourcing Program

Focuses on cultural inclusion and explores how child care practitioners may support young children to value diversity and to develop without racial prejudice. 1 videodisc (45 min.)

MEDIA 10-1130

 

Culture, politics & pedagogy a conversation with Henry Giroux c2006

Henry A Giroux, Janice R Welsch, J. Q Adams, Mark Traverso, and Media Education Foundation

Giroux explains his position that pedagogy must challenge social inequality and oppression. 1 videodisc (50 min.)

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The education of Shelby Knox c2006

Chronicles the efforts of a concerned teenager to bring sex education to the schools in her conservative Texas hometown. 1 videodisc (ca. 76 min.)

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Far from home a documentary c2005

Rachel Tsutsumi, Parkview Productions, Women Make Movies (Firm), and HBO Studio Productions

Kandice is an African-American teenager who participates in METCO, a voluntary school integration program in Boston.  Ever since kindergarten she has been bused to the public schools of Weston, a predominately white and affluent neighborhood.  She shares her conflicted feelings about traversing these two different worlds. 1 videodisc (40 min.)

MEDIA 10-1158

 

Fully awake Black Mountain College c2006

Cathryn Davis Zommer, Neeley House, and ElonDoc

A documentary film about the experimental college based in North Carolina from 1933-1957 and its enormous influence on community, collaboration, and American modern art. Looks at the unique educational style and long term significance of Black Mountain College through interviews with students, teachers, historians, and current artists. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1888

 

Hoxie the first stand 2003

David Appleby, Julian Bond, Michael Bacon, University of Memphis, and California Newsreel (Firm)

"How many people know that the first battle to implement the Brown vs. Board of Education school desegregation decision was fought in the small, rural town of Hoxie, Arkansas? Or that it became a flashpoint because it offered a peaceful alternative to the bloody Massive Resistance campaigns of the next decade? Hoxie sparked the first deployment of federal agents in support of integration and the first court order overturning state segregation laws. But it also showed that unscrupulous politicians would fan unfounded fears into violent anti-government fury, all to reminiscent of similar movements today." -- Container. Includes interviews with civil rights figures, residents, and historians, and features archival footage and re-enactments of the events described in the film. 1 videodisc (56 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2281

 

I sit where I want the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education c2004

Whitney Dow, Marco Williams, Two Tone Productions, and N (Firm)

What does a high school lunchroom tell us about the state of race relations in America? A commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the landmark supreme court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. The documentary takes place in Buffalo, NY at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. In many ways this school is the "Brown" ideal-- integrated, with a diverse mix of students; but, while they may attend classes together, the students segregate themselves.  The film focuses on one brave group of teens who decide to take on the most visible, tangible representation of the racial divide-- their segregated lunchroom. In a challenging and often uncomfortable experiment, the students set out to discover what their lunchroom says about them and their community, and what they can do about it. 1 videodisc (53 min.)

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If a tree falls a story of the Earth Liberation Front c2011

The story of the rise and fall of the Earth Liberation Front, a radical environmental group that the FBI calls America's 'number one domestic terrorist threat,' told through the transformation and radicalization of one of its members, Daniel McGowan. Weaves a chronicle of McGowan facing life in prison with a dramatic investigation of the events that led to his involvement with the ELF. 1 videodisc (85 min.)

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The learning 2011

Ramona S Diaz, Women Make Movies (Firm), CineDiaz, Inc, Independent Television Service, and Center for Asian American Media

"The learning chronicles an emotionally charged year in the lives of four Filipino women as they leave their homeland to teach in Baltimore's inner-city schools. With their increased salaries, they hope to transform their families' impoverished lives back home. But the women alsobring idealistic visions of the teacher's craft and of life in America, which soon collide with Baltimore's tough realities."--Container. 1 videodisc (98 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3612

 

License to thrive Title IX at 35 2008

Theresa Moore, Toni Slotkin, Bobbi Owens, Ron Miles, T-Time Productions, and Women Make Movies (Firm)

"In June of 1972, Congress passed a piece of legislation called Title IX of the Education Amendments, to provide educational access and opportunity for women and young girls throughout the United States. Although most closely associated with sports, no other piece of legislation since the 19th Amendment has been more crucial to opening doors and creating leadership opportunities for women in all arenas, including education, science, math, finance, entertainment, the arts, business, law, and politics"--Http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c750.shtml. 1 videodisc (48 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3709

 

Lunch line 2010

Michael Graziano, E. Joong-Eun Park, Uji Films, and Cinema Guild

Chronicles the political and social history of the National School Lunch Program, one of our nation's most successful social programs, from the factors that led to its creation to the current debate over its nutritional standards.  The National School Lunch Program began in 1946, and now more than 60 years later, feeds more than 31 million children every day. In this documentary, leaders from all sides of the school food debate including government officials, school food service experts, activists and students, weigh in on the program and discuss ways to continue nourishing America's children for another 60 years.  The documentary also follows six kids from one of the toughest neighborhoods in Chicago as they set out to fix school lunch, and end up at the White House. Their unlikely journey parallels the dramatic transformation of school lunch from a patchwork of local anti-hunger efforts to a robust national feeding program. The film tracks the behind-the-scenes details of school lunch and childhood hunger from key moments in the 1940s, 1960s and 1980s to the present, revealing political twists, surprising alliances and more common ground than people might realize. 1 videodisc (ca. 63 min.) :

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My future, my plan 2003

Dana Sheets, Gerardine Wurzburg, Laurel Katz, and State of the Art, Inc

A transition planning resource for life after high school for students with disabilities and their families. 1 videodisc (34 min.)

MEDIA 10-754

 

A place out of time the Bordentown School 2010

Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards, Ruby Dee, Hudson West Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), and PBS Home Video

The little-known story of the last all-black, publicly funded, coeducational boarding school north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In a segregated society, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia and cultural oasis for black citizens in the northeast and beyond for more than 70 years. Founded in 1886, and forced to close in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the story of Bordentown is also the story of black education in America across three centuries. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

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Playing house 2003

An intimate look at adolescent girlhood and the rarefied world of boarding school, this incisive and compelling documentary chronicles the lives of 5 girls during their first year away from home at the elite Fay School, the oldest junior boarding school in America. With great sensitivity to individual nuance and a sharp eye for significant moments of interaction, filmmaker Jane Gray reveals how deftly these 12- and 13-year-olds learn and practice "womanly" arts of psycho-social warfare while dealing with complex personal issues such as body image, class and sexual identity, family dysfunction, and self-worth. 1 videodisc (75 min.)

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Precious knowledge c2011

Ari Luis Palos, Eren McGinnis, Dos Vatos Productions, and Independent Television Service

"While 48 percent of Mexican-American students currently drop out of high school, Tucson (Ariz.) High [School's] Mexican American Studies Program has become a national model of educational success, with 93 percent of enrolled students graduating from high school. However, Arizona lawmakers [state school superintendents Tom Horne and John Huppenthal and Gov. Jan Brewer have] shut the program down because they believe the students are being indoctrinated with dangerous ideology and embracing destructive ethnic chauvinism"--Container. 1 videodisc (69 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3423

 

A private universe misconceptions that block learning 200-?

Matthew H Schneps, Philip Michael Sadler, Lindsay Crouse, Harvard University, Smithsonian Institution, and Project STAR

"...brings into sharp focus the dilemma facing all educators: Why don't even the brightest students truly grasp basic science concepts? ...traces the problem through interviews with eloquent Harvard graduates and their professors, as well as with a bright ninth-grader who has some confused ideas about the orbits of the planets..." -- Container. 1 videodisc (21 min.) :

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Race or reason the Bellport dilemma 2010

Betty Puleston, Lynne Jackson, and Documentary Educational Resources (Firm)

Bellport High School was closed a number of times in 1969 and 1970. Inspired by a model from the National Film Board of Canada called Challenge for Change, a group of Bellport High School students used early video cameras to facilitate dialogue in an effort to resolve racial tensions at their school. This program integrates this early footage with commentary by former students Littie Rau, Gene Roos, Joyce Rowley, Paulette Samuels, Zoilo Torres, and others. 1 videodisc (59 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3502

 

Rutgers from the inside: a view of a contemporary university 1966

Rutgers University and Dept. of Public Relations

Shows college classrooms (graduate and undergraduate), activities, and campus of Rutgers University (Rutgers, Rutgers Newark, Douglass) in 1966. Includes interviews with students who express their attitudes towards classmates, professors, curriculum, and the transition to a state university. 34 min.  sd.  color.  16 mm

MEDIA 10-3260

 

SNCC 50th Anniversary Conference: Volume 30: The Young People's Project: "Come let us build a new world" 2011

Natalie Bullock Brown, SNCC Legacy Project, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (U.S.), 50th Anniversary Conference, Ascension Productions, and California Newsreel (Firm)

Conference proceedings of veteran and youth activists gathered at Shaw University in North Carolina to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), an organization which formed the vanguard of the Civil Rights Movement. Volume 30: In 1988 Bob Moses founded the Algebra Project, with a mission to spread math literacy and encourage teenagers to organize and make demands on their school system. In turn, an outgrowth of the Algebra Project is the Young People's Project (YPP) where young people organize their peers. In this session YPP members explain and demonstrate how their work is structured around simple tools for building relationships. Young "math literacy workers" and organizers divide the meeting attendees into small groups or "Neighbors Circles." They are encouraged to share their experiences and discover each other's areas of interest. 1 videodisc (87 min.) :

MEDIA 10-2710

 

Speak up! improving the lives of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender youth 2002

John Kazlauskas, Judy Shepard Rosenfeld, Danny Roberts, Julie Stoffer, and Anthony Rapp

This video takes a powerful look at the ways in which individuals are reclaiming their classrooms and hallways and making them a safe space for GLBT students. 1 videodisc (30 min.)

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Speaking in tongues c2009

Marcia Jarmel, Ken Schneider, Jon Jang, PatchWorks Films, Independent Television Service, Center for Asian American Media, and Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm)

"Closely following four very different local public-schoolers through an academic year, [the producers] draw on subtle nuances of the kids' stories to illustrate the complex shades and permutations of bilingual schooling. Two children are placed in immersion programs to retain their native tongues while learning English, and the other two are in the reverse situation. Their parents list both familiar and surprising reasons for enrolling their children, but each remains a strong proponent of the programs despite criticism from extended family, friends and a loud chorus of English-only activists. Even while dismissing common barbs, the families must confront unique challenges both humorous and serious."--PatchWorks Films website. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-1736

 

A touch of greatness c2004

Leslie Sullivan, Catherine Gund, Bernadine Colish, Robert Downey, and Aubin Pictures (Firm)

A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining interviews with Cullum and his former students with stunning archival footage filmed by director Robert Downey, Sr., the film documents the extraordinary work of this maverick public school teacher who embraced creativity, motivation and self-esteem in the classroom through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play. 1 videodisc (54 min.)

MEDIA 10-399

 

Waiting for "Superman" 2011

Davis Guggenheim, Billy Kimball, Lesley Chilcott, Bill Strickland, Geoffrey Canada, Michelle Rhee, Randi Weingarten , Christophe Beck,  John Legend, Paramount Vantage, Participant Media, Electric Kinney Films, and  Paramount Home Entertainment (Firm)

"Provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. [This documentary] has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life."--container . 1 videodisc (111 min.) :

MEDIA 10-3242

 

The wasting of a wetland 1991

Discusses the danger faced by the Everglades, as its existence is being threatened by modern industrial pollution, agriculture and development for a burgeoning human population. 1 videodisc (23 min.)

MEDIA 10-4341

 

What's race got to do with it? 2006

Jean Cheng and California Newsreel (Firm)

This program "chronicles the experiences of a new generation of college students, in this case over the course of 16 weeks of intergroup dialogue on the U.C. Berkeley campus. 1 videodisc (49 min.)

MEDIA 10-885

 

What's race got to do with it? 2006

Jean Cheng, Dave Stark, Belinda Sullivan, Jerlena Griffin-Destra, and California Newsreel (Firm)

This program "chronicles the experiences of a new generation of college students, in this case over the course of 16 weeks of intergroup dialogue on the U.C. Berkeley campus. As they confront themselves and each other about race, they discover they often lack awareness of how different their experience of campus life is from their peers, to the detriment of an inclusive campus climate"--Container. 1 videodisc (49 min.) :

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The women of summer the Bryn Mawr school for women workers, 1921-1938 1985

Suzanne Bauman

Weaves together oral histories, unearthed diaries and letters to reconstruct an educational experiment of the 1920s and 30s in which women from the mills and factories went to Bryn Mawr College for a special summer session. DVD    1 videocassette (60  min.)

MEDIA 10-1929

 

Beyond Brown pursuing the promise c2004

Lulie Haddad, Cyndee Readdean, John J Valadez, Joe Morton, and Firelight Media

Explores the legacy and impact of Brown vs. Board of Education, the 1954 Supreme Court decision ending legal segregation in American education. 1 videodisc (ca. 60 min.)

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Children in America's schools with Bill Moyers 2004

Bill D Moyers, Jeffrey Hayden, Kelley Cauthen, Jonathan Kozol, South Carolina Educational Television Network, Nebraska Educational Television Network, and Saint/Hayden Company

Covering only public school districts in Ohio, this program examines the extreme range in physical conditions and educational opportunities presented in the rural, suburban, and city schools of Ohio. Includes a panel discussion moderated by Bill Moyers. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

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Connected careers for the future 1997

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

Often the best careers are international.  Afro-Americans, Latinos, Native Americans and Asian-Americans are breaking ground in all professions. This video goes to their workplaces and introduces some remarkable people who have been able to carve out their own future and create their own careers. We learn about their education, internships, foreign language training, the work they do now, and the mentors who helped them along the way. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

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Creating and scoring a senior project presentation 2002

Presents ideas for the creation, development, and presentation of a senior project, as well as for its judging and scoring. This project deals with public speaking. 1 videocassette (23 min.)

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Data for decisions resources from NCES  1996

Promotional video for National Center for Education Statistics data processing products which support information systems in education. 1 videocassette (17 min.)

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Definitions of access where will they lead us? 1998

Presents the results of the Policy Panel on Reconceptualizing Access and Its Ramifications for Data Systems held in cooperation with American Council on Education in September 1997. Five leading experts on access policy and research present the implications of broadening the definition of access as it is used in postsecondary education. Contains excerpts from the presentations, a brief summary of findings from a bibliographic study of research on access, and recommendations for conducting research and developing policy regarding access. 1 videocassette (19 min.)

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A delicate balance 1996

Andre Braugher, Yolanda Parks, and Elizabeth Taylor-Mead

Profiles scientists Valerie Taylor, Freda Porter-Locklear and Richard Tapia. Emphasis is placed on their efforts at outreach and their positions as role models for minority students of mathematics and computer science. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-3984

 

Educating Peter 1992

Thomas C Goodwin and Gerardine Wurzburg

Follows Peter Gwazdauskas, a Down's Syndrome child who has always attended special schools. through his first year in a regular third grade public school classroom. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

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Evening the odds is title IX working? 1999

In 1972, Title IX was established, a civil rights act that prohibits gender discrimination at any school that receives federal funds. In this program, Elisabeth Brackett, of WTTW in Chicago, goes to Indiana University -- alma mater of Olympic diving medalists Lesley Bush and Cynthia Potter - to investigate higher education's Title IX track record in the area of sports. The IU administration is working diligently to meet Title IX conditions by creating new athletics programs and spreading out scholarship dollars more evenly between male and female athletes. But a USA Today survey found that only seven Division 1 schools have met the Title IX standards for gender equity. IU does not expect to be in compliance until 2004, and the National Women's Law Center, which has filed complaints against a number of other schools for discriminating against female athletes in scholarship funding, is doing its best to speed up the process. 1 videocassette (12 min.)

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The eye of the storm 1992?

William Peters and Bill Beutel

Shows how an elementary school teacher in Riceville, Iowa, introduced her children to the realities of prejudice by using the color of eyes as the criterion of superiority. Explains that the results of the experiment were indicative of the situation throughout the United States. 1 videocassette (25 min.)

DANA 1505

 

Faces of change social work in the new millennium 1999

Jodi Ussher Lewis, Susan Chandler, Tom Nelson, Rachel Cooper, and Leah Russell

This video is an introduction to social work and its many areas of practice.  Viewers will find social workers in their different environments talking about the work they do and confronting negative myths about the profession. 1 videocassette (27 min.)

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Fair play achieving gender equity in the digital age 2000

Regina Taylor and Sue Ellen McCann

Set at Fulmore Middle School in Austin, Texas, this program exposes counterproductive classroom behaviors and presents measures being taken to correct the misperception that computing is a males-only domain. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

MEDIA 2-5091

 

Far from home a documentary c2005

Rachel Tsutsumi, Parkview Productions, Women Make Movies (Firm), and HBO Studio Productions

Kandice is an African-American teenager who participates in METCO, a voluntary school integration program in Boston.  Ever since kindergarten she has been bused to the public schools of Weston, a predominately white and affluent neighborhood.  She shares her conflicted feelings about traversing these two different worlds. 1 videodisc (40 min.)

MEDIA 10-1158

 

Fear and learning at Hoover Elementary  1997

Laura Angelica Simón and Tracey Trench

A documentary by Los Angeles teacher Laura Angelica Simón, exploring the impact of California's Proposition 187 on the immigrant community. 1 videocassette (ca. 53 min.)

DANA 1902

 

Fighting back, 1957-1962 1995

Judith Vecchione and Julian Bond

Presents the history of the integration of public schools and universities in the South after the 1954 Supreme Court decision. The program identifies the national organizations involved in the struggle to integrate schools, describing the leaders and their strategies and how they affected the freedom struggle. 1 videocasette (ca. 60 min.)

MEDIA 2-4163

 

Fit episodes in the history of the body 1991

Laurie Block and Linda Hunt

Combines archival images and research to chart the development of American attitudes towards, and definitions of, physical fitness and the human body. 1 videocassette (74 min.)

MEDIA 2-2107

 

From Harlem to Harvard a film 1982

An award-winning film made by four Harvard upperclassmen in the 1979-1980 school year. Traces the experiences of a motivated, black, middle class freshman from Harlem as he tries to succeed i- an alien environment at Harvard University. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

DANA 968

 

Fully awake Black Mountain College c2006

Cathryn Davis Zommer, Neeley House, and ElonDoc

A documentary film about the experimental college based in North Carolina from 1933-1957 and its enormous influence on community, collaboration, and American modern art. Looks at the unique educational style and long term significance of Black Mountain College through interviews with students, teachers, historians, and current artists. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

MEDIA 10-1888

 

The G.I. bill the law that changed America 1997

Karen Thomas and Cliff Robertson

Chronicles the history and impact of the famous bill that guaranteed education, housing and business loans to the 16 million Americans who served in World War II. This single act of Congress made the future different for American GI's. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-4259

 

Given a chance 1995

Lynne Thigpen and Dante J James

Early 1965 is a critical period for President Johnson's war on poverty.  The Office of Economic Opportunity's goal to have the poor themselves design and run anti-poverty programs attracts strong opposition from local and state governments.  Head Start is created to provide poor children with adequate nutrition, health care and the educational advantages that other American children enjoy.  This program focuses on the Head Start program in Mississippi. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-4087

 

Heart of stone 2009

Beth Toni Kruvant and Good Footage Productions

Portrait of a bold principal who works with gang leaders and alumni of Weequahic High School of Newark, New Jersey to give African American students at this inner city school a hopeful future. 1 videodisc (60 min.)

DANA 475

 

Helping your child succeed in school  1996

Instructs parents on how they can help their children succeed in school. 4 videocassettes (ca. 150 min.)

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Hispanic-American cultures in the U.S.A 1993

J. Q Adams and Tony Labriola

Discusses the diverse cultures in the U.S. grouped under the label Hispanic and the strong emphasis placed on education within the groups. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

DANA 219

 

I sit where I want the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education c2004

Whitney Dow, Marco Williams, Two Tone Productions, and N (Firm)

What does a high school lunchroom tell us about the state of race relations in America? A commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the landmark supreme court decision, Brown v. Board of Education. The documentary takes place in Buffalo, NY at the Buffalo Academy for Visual and Performing Arts. In many ways this school is the "Brown" ideal-- integrated, with a diverse mix of students; but, while they may attend classes together, the students segregate themselves.  The film focuses on one brave group of teens who decide to take on the most visible, tangible representation of the racial divide-- their segregated lunchroom. In a challenging and often uncomfortable experiment, the students set out to discover what their lunchroom says about them and their community, and what they can do about it. 1 videodisc (53 min.)

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Improving higher education through networking March 22, 1989 1989

This program features explanations, demonstrations and discussions of electronic mail, data networking, computer conferencing and videonetworking.  Kathy Ciociola of Rutgers University discussed the various uses of electronic mail and the PILOT network.  Mark Hubey of Montclair State College illustrated data networking and computer networking standards with the assistance of computer animation.  Diana Thompson of Northern Virginia Community College described basic writing skills as taught via a computer network.  The Virtual classroom available through NJIT's Electronic Information Exchange System (EIES) was highlighted as well.  The ability to teach a single class at multiple locations was demonstrated at Union County College. 1 videocassette (150 min.)

MEDIA 2-1702

 

In service to America 1995

Lynne Thigpen, Paige Martinez, Sam Sills, and Sheila Curran Bernard

By 1967, poverty warriors increase the sophistication of their tactics at the same time that a number of outspoken opponents rise to national prominence.  This program highlights the beginning of Legal Services and VISTA, two programs that combined individual action with the idea of volunteerism.  Lawyers team up with migrant farm workers in California to fight for better education, health care and working conditions, and VISTA volunteers and local residents organize against strip mining in Appalachia.  Both stories raise significant questions about activities the government funds in the name of fighting poverty. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-4089

 

In the white man's image 1991

Christine Lesiak, Matthew Jones, Stacy Keach, and David G McCullough

A look at the education of a group of American Indians at the Carlisle School for Indian Students founded by Richard Pratt in the early part of the 20th century as an attempt to change their heritage and values. Includes the story of Cheyenne warriors who were exiled to St. Augustine, Florida, as the first group of Indians to be schooled under Mr. Pratt's direction. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-4028

 

Intervention and referral services for general education pupils (I&RS) a four-part videotape program series and videotape companion guide 1998

Hope Arvanitis and Irv MacDowell

Contains materials intended to provide a framework and best practice ideas for starting or refining intervention and referral teams in school buildings at all grade levels across the state. 4 videocassettes (58 min.)

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It's a wild ride at O'Leary Junior High 2001

Theresa Maves, Meile Harris, and Jill Whitesell

Introduces an interdisciplinary math, science, and language arts project. Students learn about and apply laws of motion, linear functions, and technical reporting as they design and present an ultimate roller coaster. 1 videocassette (15 min.)

MEDIA 2-6105

 

The keys to the kingdom, 1974-1980 1995

Jacqueline Shearer, Paul Jeffrey Stekler, and Julian Bond

Examines the relationship between law and popular struggle. In Boston, Black parents organize to improve their childrens's education. In Atlanta, Maynard Jackson, the city's first Black mayor, tries to guarantee Black involvement in the construction of Alanta's airport.  Affirmative action programs do not go unchallenged, however, as Allan Bakke takes his suit against the University of California all the way to the Supreme Court. 1 videocasette (ca. 60 min.)

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Larry v. Lockney c2002

Mark Birnbaum, Jim Schermbeck, Mark Birmbaum Productions, KERA Dallas/Ft. Worth (Television station), Independent Television Service, and Filmakers Library, inc

Documentary film explores the case of Larry Tannahill and his struggle as the only parent against the Lockney, Texas school board's mandatory drug testing policy. Examines all sides of the issue in this landmark case "that pitted one man against his friends and neighbors.". 1 videocassette (56 min.)

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The last graduation the Movement for College Programs in New York State prisons after Attica 1999

Barbara Zahm, DeeDee Halleck, Benay Rubenstein, and Cathy Scott

Researcher Barbara Zahm gives a brief history of the 1971 Attica Prison Rebellion in which forty-three men died, and the college prison program which was initiated afterward. After interviews with prison inmates, "The Movement for College Programs of New York State Prisons After Attica" was formed. Zahm tells of her transformation after working with the inmates and her anguish over the Congressional decision to eliminate Pell Grants for prisoners, thus ending the program and leading to the "Last Graduation". As of 1997 funding cuts had not been restored. 1 videocassette (ca. 55 min.)

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Learn & live 1997

Robin Williams and Gerardine Wurzburg

The documentary film shows innovative schools around the country that are integrating technology with teaching and learning, and involving parents, business, and the community. 1 videocassette (56 min.)

MEDIA 2-6108

 

The Lemon Grove incident 1985

Paul Espinosa, Frank Christopher, Robert Alvarez, and Harold Cannon

"The struggle to end school segregation in usually linked to the 1954 Supreme Court case of Brown vs. the Board of Education.  However, many of the nation's earliest desegregation cases occurred in the American Southwest and they involved the children of Mexican immigrants.  This is the true story of one of those cases."--Opening credits. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-5231

 

Making of a doctor  1995

Michael Barnes and Lynne Thigpen

Documentary follows seven students in Harvard Medical School's Class of 1991 through the rigors and rewards of their medical training, from the academics to the emotionally and physically grueling years of internship. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

MEDIA 2-3353

 

Mary McLeod Bethune the spirit of a champion 1996

Rex Barnett and Steve Coulter

Chronicles the life of Mary McLeod Bethune, one of the major pioneers of Black education in the U.S. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

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Maxine Singer 1989

Bill D Moyers, Maxine Singer, and Betsy McCarthy

Maxine Singer personifies the consummately trained biologist who specializes in genetics.  Dr. Singer's special concerns about the ethics of science and the dilemmas of choice are featured in this program which focuses on the consequences that accompany scientific progress.  Included in this episode are a discussion of science education, ethics in genetic engineering and the joy of discovery. 1 videocassette (30 min.)

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The Modern School reunion 1990 1990

Nellie Dick, James Dick, Paul Averick, and Jerry Mintz

Reunion of Modern School alumni with speeches given by the founder, Nellie Dick, her husband, James Dick, alumnus Paul Averick, and others. 1 videocassette (ca.110 min.)

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The Morehouse men 1995

Sabita Kumari-Dass

Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia is the only African-American men's college in the United States. For 128 years, Morehouse has educated the black elite, seeking to instill moral, social, spiritual and academic values among its students. It boasts Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Olympic gold medalist Edwin Moses, and filmmaker, Spike Lee as graduates. This film follows a group of freshmen students and explores the formal and informal processes whereby boys are molded into "Morehouse Men". 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

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Multimedia fair use guidelines 1995

Bruce A Lehman, Marybeth Peters, and Robert B Lindemeyer

Discusses the issues of fair use and copyright compliance as they relate to multimedia works.  Presents tentative guidelines developed by the Consortium of College & University Media Centers Multimedia Fair Use Guidelines Working Committee.  The panel examines problems from the perspectives of information producers, managers and users. 1 videocassette (120 min.)

MEDIA 2-2549

 

My future, my plan 2003

Dana Sheets, Gerardine Wurzburg, Laurel Katz, and State of the Art, Inc

A transition planning resource for life after high school for students with disabilities and their families. 1 videodisc (34 min.)

MEDIA 10-754

 

National Reading Panel teaching children to read 2000

An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction. 1 videocassette (ca. 20 min.)bsd., col. ;

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Nellie Dick and the modern school movement 1990

Jerry Mintz, Nellie Dick, and James Dick

This film is about the recollection of a pioneer in alternative education, Nellie Dick, who was 96 years old at the time of the interview. One learns that the Modern School (Stelton, N.J.) is based on the libertarian theories of Francisco Ferrer, a Spanish progressive educator. 1 videocassette (ca. 110 min.)

MEDIA 2-1649

 

Only a teacher 2001

Claudia Levin, Meg Pinto, and Stockard Channing

"[Episode 1] explores the importance of educators in the lives of their students, emphasizing their influence as role models, as upholders of society's norms, and even as agents of social change....[Episode 2] traces the evolution of teaching as a profession, honoring education who risked everything to stand up for teacher's rights....[Episode 3] 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"--Containers. 3 videocassettes (165 min.)

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A place out of time the Bordentown School 2010

Dave Davidson, Amber Edwards, Ruby Dee, Hudson West Productions, Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.), and PBS Home Video

The little-known story of the last all-black, publicly funded, coeducational boarding school north of the Mason-Dixon Line. In a segregated society, the Bordentown School was an educational utopia and cultural oasis for black citizens in the northeast and beyond for more than 70 years. Founded in 1886, and forced to close in 1955 after the Brown v. Board of Education decision, the story of Bordentown is also the story of black education in America across three centuries. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

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Power!, 1966-1968 1995

Louis Massiah, Terry Kay Rockefeller, and Julian Bond

Shows how  Blacks looked for new ways to take control of their communities. This program explores the political path to power for Carl Stokes, the nation's first Black mayor of a major city. It also describes the founding of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, Calif., and the struggle of Black and Hispanic parents in Brooklyn, N.Y., to improve their children's education through community control of the schools. 1 videocasette (ca. 60 min.)

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President Clinton unveils national service plan at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, March 1, 1993 1993

President Clinton spoke about his plan to create a new system of national voluntary service for university students nationwide.  This plan is built on the same principle as the GI Bill.  Its implementation will reform the whole system of student loans as well as enrich education for both the young and the communities they will serve. 1 videocassette (65 min.)

MEDIA 2-1980

 

Public schools inc c2003

John D Tulenko, David Fanning, John Merrow , Diana B Henriques, Chris Whittle, Learning Matters, Inc, WGBH (Television station : Boston, Mass.), New York Times Company, and PBS Video

Ten years after entrepreneur Chris Whittle announced his plan to revolutionize education, Whittle's Edison Schools continue to be a lightning rod for the issue of for-profit, public education. Frontline and The Merrow Report join forces to investigate the Edision Schools and examine whether it's possible to create world-class schools that turn a profit. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-7704

 

Pursuing excellence initial findings from the Third International Mathematics and Science Study 1997?

Highlighting the findings assessing the math and science performance of over 500,000 students in 41 countries at three different grade levels. Summarizing the study's key findings at the eighth-grade level with respect to curriculum and learning expectations, teaching, teacher's lives and students' lives. Including the views of business leaders, policy makers, educators, and researchers on the study's implications for America's schools. 1 videocassette (14 min.)

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Remedy for riot 2002

Harry Reasoner, John Sharnik, and Norman Gorin

In this news program from 1968, Harry Reasoner reports on the findings and recommendations of President Johnson's National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. 1 videocassette (58 min.)

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Richard Rodriguez victim of two cultures 1994

Betsy McCarthy, Bill D Moyers, and Richard Rodriguez

Presents Rodriguez's experiences of growing up in America as the son of immigrants, the loss of his "Mexican soul", and his first exposure to American culture. Discussion focuses also on the differences between Mexican and American cultures, including Rodriguez' observations on America's growing sense of loss and the essence of American society today. 1 videocassette (ca. 60 min.)

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The Road to Brown the untold story of the man who killed Jim Crow 1990

Steven Anthony Jones, Mykola Kulish, Larry Adelman, and Darryl Cox

Documentary on segregation in the South and the legal campaign against it. Profiles black lawyer Charles Houston, whose work in attacking the segregation laws ("Jim Crow") ultimately led to the landmark Brown vs. Board of Education case. 1 videocassette (ca. 58 min.)

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Saving the native son empowering strategies for young black males 1994

Courtland C Lee, Cheryl C Holcomb, Garry Richard Walz, and Courtland C Lee

Courtland Lee discusses the problems which young black men face in U.S. society and in the U.S. educational system and empowerment programs which have been designed to respond to these problems. 1 videocassette (ca. 50 min.)

MEDIA 2-5391

 

School of the Americas an insider speaks out 1998

Joseph A Blair and Linda Panetta

Major Joseph A. Blair, a former instructor at the U.S. School of Americas, speaks out on why the SOA should be shut down. The video reveals the hidden world of the School of the Americas and incorporates rarely-seen footage from Latin America. 1 videocassette (16 min.)

MEDIA 2-5217

 

School the story of American public education 2001

Sarah Mondale, Sarah B Patton, Meryl Streep, and Sheila Curran Bernard

[1]. The Common school: 1770-1890 -- [2]. As American as public school: 1900-1950 -- [3]. A struggle for educational equality: 1950-1980 -- [4]. The bottom line in education:1980 to the present Episode 1: "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"--Container. Episode 2: "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, the 'life adjustment' curriculum, and Cold War politics"--Container. Episode 3: "This program shows how impressive gains masked profound inequalities: seventeen states had segregated schools; 1% of all Ph.D.s went to women; and 'separate but equal' was still the law of the land. Interviews with Linda Brown Thompson and other equal rights pioneers bring to life the issues that prompted such milestones as Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, Title IX, and the Americans with Disabilities Act"--Container. Episode 4: "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"--Container. 4 videocassettes (ca. 3 hr., 40 min.)        4 DVDs

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Science teams 1991

Consortium for Educational Equity and Rutgers University

"Elementary teachers and students discover environmental science through cooperative learning.". 1 videocassette (23 min.)

MEDIA 2-6506

 

Sex matters 1991

Rutgers University students discuss their feelings about sex, promisuity, sexually transmitted diseases, safe sex. 1 videocassette (25 min.)

MEDIA 2-1271

 

Shattering the silences the case for minority faculty 1997

Stanley Nelson, Gail Pellett, and Parker Johnson

Explores issues of faculty diversity in American higher education in the mid-1990s, focusing on the experience of eight minority scholars in the humanities and social sciences at various institutions. 1 videocassette (86 min.)

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Simple justice 1993

Helaine Head, Yanna Brandt, John McGreevey, Peter Francis James, James Avery, Andre Braugher, Scott Wentworth, Scott Whitehurst, William Allen Young, Sam Gray, and Richard Kluger

Docudrama recounts the remarkable legal strategy and social struggle that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court's landmark ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka. 3 videocassettes (137 min.)

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So long silence 1990

Tom Baldridge

A documentary depicting deaf students in and out of school at the California School for the Deaf in Fremont. 1 videocassette (22 min.)

MEDIA 2-5015

 

Speak up! improving the lives of gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, transgender youth 2002

John Kazlauskas, Judy Shepard Rosenfeld, Danny Roberts, Julie Stoffer, and Anthony Rapp

This video takes a powerful look at the ways in which individuals are reclaiming their classrooms and hallways and making them a safe space for GLBT students. 1 videodisc (30 min.)

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Speaking in tongues c2009

Marcia Jarmel, Ken Schneider, Jon Jang, PatchWorks Films, Independent Television Service, Center for Asian American Media, and Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm)

"Closely following four very different local public-schoolers through an academic year, [the producers] draw on subtle nuances of the kids' stories to illustrate the complex shades and permutations of bilingual schooling. Two children are placed in immersion programs to retain their native tongues while learning English, and the other two are in the reverse situation. Their parents list both familiar and surprising reasons for enrolling their children, but each remains a strong proponent of the programs despite criticism from extended family, friends and a loud chorus of English-only activists. Even while dismissing common barbs, the families must confront unique challenges both humorous and serious."--PatchWorks Films website. 1 videodisc (57 min.)

MEDIA 10-1736

 

Spirit of the dawn 1994

Heidi Schmidt and Carolyn Cox

This documentary traces the history of Indian education in the U.S. and the experience of the Crow Indians in Montana in particular. It features the work of 6th grade teacher Mick Fedullo, who uses poetry as a tool for Crow Indian students to express their cultural heritage. Includes archival footage. 1 videocassette (29 min.)

MEDIA 2-2924

 

Stand up a summer at comedy camp / a Four Winds production in association with KCET and with assistance of Original Productions ; produced and directed by Kyra Thompson 2002

Kyra Thompson

This is a documentary television program about the Laugh Factory's Comedy Camp for disadvantaged kids of  L.A. in the summer of 2000. It is run with the help of celebrity volunteers.  1 videocassette (ca. 90 min.) sd., col. ; 1/2 in

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Students at the center : a national teleconference on school reform 1998

Christopher Moore

"Today's schools face multiple challenges--none more important that improving student learning in all of our schools. However, improved student learning does not happen by accident; it takes careful planning and draws on the wealth of research and expert practice on how student learning can be improved. This program features panels of noted educational researchers and practitioners discussed three critical elements required to transform schools for the benefit of student learning."--Container. 1 videocassette (90 min.)

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Taking the Blue Ribbon challenge 1999

Mustapha Khan and C. Ralph Adler

An introduction to the Blue Ribbons Schools Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education. 1 videocassette (14 min.)

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Teaching children to read 2002

National Reading Panel (U.S.), Widmeyer Communications, and National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (U.S.)

Highlights the main points of the National Reading Panel's comprehensive report on reading instruction. Explains research-based findings through classroom applications with real students. Also contains clips of the Panel explaining the rationale behind their conclusions. 1 videocassette (20 min.)

MEDIA 2-7698

 

Teaching indians to be white 1993

Michael Wood and Brian Moser

Schools, where native children find it nearly impossible to balance the white view they are taught with the language and values they learn at home, represent a major problem for native children.  Various tribes have responded differently to the challenge of educating their children: the Seminole of Florida resist being integrated, the Miccosukee decided not to fight but to join, and the Cree took back their own schools. 1 videocassette (28 min.)

MEDIA 2-5987

 

Temple of science 1993

Stefan Moore

Teaching hospitals have been the central focus for the evolution of modern medicine.  They house the most revered scientists, the leading doctors, and the most sophisticated technology.  Although this model of medicine has had remarkable success intreating serious diseases, teaching hospitals and the doctors they train are less equipped to provide the kind of primary care that most people need.  "Temple of Science" looks at the turmoil surrounding these issues at Johns Hopkins, one of the world's leading teaching hospitals. 1 videocassette (57 min.)

MEDIA 2-3968

 

A touch of greatness c2004

Leslie Sullivan, Catherine Gund, Bernadine Colish, Robert Downey, and Aubin Pictures (Firm)

A Touch of Greatness is a feature-length documentary film focusing on the extraordinary work of Albert Cullum, an elementary school teacher for over twenty years and a pioneer in American education. Championing an unorthodox educational philosophy, Cullum regularly taught his elementary school children literary masterpieces, most notably the works of Shakespeare, Sophocles and Shaw. Combining interviews with Cullum and his former students with stunning archival footage filmed by director Robert Downey, Sr., the film documents the extraordinary work of this maverick public school teacher who embraced creativity, motivation and self-esteem in the classroom through the use of poetry, drama and imaginative play. 1 videodisc (54 min.)

MEDIA 10-399

 

Unequal education 1994

Bill D Moyers, Kathleen Hall Jamieson, Carolie Jenkins, Robert Morris, and Joseph Camp

The initial segment "Failing our children" focuses on inequality in the education available in rich and poor New York neighborhood schools. A group of four recently graduated high school students produced and reported this segment.  Also includes Kathleen Hall Jamieson commenting on the 1992 Presidential campaign and a discussion between Jonathan Kozol and John Chubb on school vouchers. 1 videocassette (60 min.)

MEDIA 2-3295

 

Up the down staircase c1994

Sandy Dennis, Patrick Bedford, Eileen Heckart, Ruth White,  Jean Stapleton, Sorrell Booke, Roy Poole, Bel Kaufman, Alan J Pakula, Robert Mulligan, Warner Bros. Pictures (1923-1967), Park Place Productions, and Warner Home Video (Firm)

Sandy Dennis stars as an idealistic new teacher in the New York's Calvin Coolidge High where there are no books, no chalk, too many students and no discipline. 1 videocassette (123 min.)

MEDIA 2-7263

 

A Virtual academic library environment in New Jersey 1997.

Albert Xavier and Charles McMickle

An interactive video teleconference presenting the plan for creating and developing VALE: a virtual academic library environment in New Jersey with partial funding from the Higher Education Technology Infrastructure Fund.  Jointly sponsored by NJIN's Educational Activities Task Force and Library Committee to present VALE plans and initiatives. 1 videocassette (ca. 120 min.)

MEDIA 2-3605

 

Waiting on the world to change poverty in Camden, New Jersey 2008

Diane Sawyer, ABC News, ABC News Productions, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)

Moorestown, New Jersey, has been designated "the best place to live in America." Ten minutes away is Camden, the poorest city in America, also known as Murder City, USA. During a period of 18 months, Diane Sawyer follows the lives of three youngsters who are used to seeing drug deals on street corners and hearing gunfire at night. What is it like for kids to live with no electricity, rushing to finish homework before sundown? To have no food to eat before school? To sleep on the floor with roaches, grateful just to have a roof overhead? Four-year-old Ivan is homeless and hungry, but looks forward to learning to read in kindergarten. Seventeen-year-old Billy Joe is determined to graduate from high school and get an honest job to help his family. Six-year-old Moochie lives in a dysfunctional family and dreams of getting a good education. All they need is the opportunity to prove themselves. 1 videodisc (ca. 42 min.)

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What kind of teacher are you? 1994

Iowa State University, Iowa State University, Media Resources Center, Iowa State University, and Center for Teaching Excellence

College faculty talk about their personal style of teaching and provide examples of materials teacher might select for their teaching portfolio. 1 videocassette (14:30 min.)

MEDIA 2-6507

 

What's race got to do with it? 2006

Jean Cheng and California Newsreel (Firm)

This program "chronicles the experiences of a new generation of college students, in this case over the course of 16 weeks of intergroup dialogue on the U.C. Berkeley campus. 1 videodisc (49 min.)

MEDIA 10-885

 

White man's way 198-?

Christine Lesiak and  N. Scott Momaday

Depicts the everyday lives of Plain's Indian children at U.S. Government Indian schools.  Begun in the 1880's, the Indian schools philosophy was to educate these children to the white man's way--a method which attempted to create their cultural annihilation.  Shows childrens separation from their homes and traditions and their sense of alienation even from their own culture. 1 videocassette (ca. 28 min.)

MEDIA 2-1726

 

The women of summer the Bryn Mawr school for women workers, 1921-1938 1985

Suzanne Bauman

Weaves together oral histories, unearthed diaries and letters to reconstruct an educational experiment of the 1920s and 30s in which women from the mills and factories went to Bryn Mawr College for a special summer session. DVD    1 videocassette (60  min.)

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