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Sort by:     SKU     Product     Price      Default     Result pages:     1 2 3 4 5   Inside the College Admissions Game DVD SKU: FIL32609 This exclusive three-part ABC News series goes behind the scenes of "the college admissions game" at Georgetown University to observe the process through the eyes of the personnel who decide who will get in-and of the students who wait with bated breath for acceptance. College rankings, standardi... More Information and Pricing Details Integrating ESL Students into the Classroom SKU: FILESL By viewing Integrating ESL Students, classroom teachers of any subject will come away with concrete information and advice that they can use to teach-and reach-their English-language learners (ELLs) better. Practicality and relevance guide the program as it reviews basic ESL standards and strateg... More Information and Pricing Details Integrating Media into the Classroom 2-part DVD Series SKU: FIL34582 An increase in confidence and comfort level with high-tech teaching tools is the key to unlocking the full potential of educational media in the classroom. In this inspiring and informative two-part series, educators and media specialists with firsthand experience of the challenges and rewards of... More Information and Pricing Details Intelligent Design vs. Evolution DVD SKU: FIL35298 Confronting one of the most complex and potentially divisive issues on the American cultural landscape, this ABC News program examines the intellectual and political forces that support the teaching of intelligent design in public schools. The video focuses on the Discovery Institute, a Seattle-b... More Information and Pricing Details Japanese Education in Crisis DVD SKU: FIL33927 This documentary explores sobering developments linked to Japan's emphasis on intense academic pressure and conformity: 2,000 teen suicides per year, a 60 percent increase in crime since 1994, and the phenomenon of hikikomori children-those who have collapsed emotionally and withdrawn from societ... More Information and Pricing Details Killing Creativity: Are Schools or Parents to Blame? SKU: FILKIL If we're all born with creative potential, why do many children lose their inventive tendencies as they grow older? What role does organized education play? This program observes a group of 25 seven-year-olds and their families in order to study childhood creativity, why it frequently fades, and ... More Information and Pricing Details Living with ADHD SKU: FIL34640 Children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder need not miss out on crucial educational opportunities. This program describes new medical strategies designed specifically for parents struggling to keep ADHD from controlling their households and limiting the prospects and happiness of thei... More Information and Pricing Details Lock-up: Inside America's Prisons DVD SKU: FIL39083 With more resources than ever invested in the nation's prison system, a growing number of Americans question whether or not that system is really working. Searching for answers, this six-part series of MSNBC documentaries looks at the world of the incarcerated-from the inside out. With extraordin... More Information and Pricing Details Making Schools Work, with Hedrick Smith DVD SKU: FIL35020 Amidst a gloomy climate of failing schools and the stringent No Child Left Behind legislation, some communities have created a small revolution, achieving gains with children others had given up on-with implications for schools nationwide. In this penetrating documentary, Pulitzer Prize-winning j... More Information and Pricing Details Making Schools Work: A Roadmap for Recovery 7-DVD Series SKU: FIL35142 This extraordinary seven-part series-a practical roadmap for schools and school districts across the country-is essential viewing for educators, administrators, advocates, and anyone else with a heartfelt concern over the future of America's children. The first program, a detailed overview of som... More Information and Pricing Details Making Schools Work: Conversations with Anthony Alvarado and Eric Smith DVD SKU: FIL35147 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 dist... More Information and Pricing Details Making Schools Work: Conversations with Kati Haycock and Michael Casserly DVD SKU: FIL35148 In segment one of this interview, Kati Haycock, founder and director of The Education Trust, and Hedrick Smith discuss a range of hot topics in contemporary education: the standards movement and educational equity, No Child Left Behind, and the critical components of effective school reform, to n... More Information and Pricing Details Making Schools Work: Gene Bottoms on High Schools That Work DVD SKU: FIL35146 High Schools That Work is the nation's first large-scale effort to unite educational stakeholders at all levels with the objective of re-engaging what some have called the forgotten majority in U.S. high schools. In this interview, founding director Gene Bottoms, Ed.D., talks with Hedrick Smith a... More Information and Pricing Details Making Schools Work: James Comer on the Comer Process DVD SKU: FIL35144 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-shari... More Information and Pricing Details Making Schools Work: Michael Feinberg on the KIPP Model DVD SKU: FIL35145 KIPP, the Knowledge Is Power Program, is a network of free open-enrollment college-preparatory public schools in under-resourced communities throughout the United States. In this interview, KIPP co-developer Michael Feinberg joins Hedrick Smith to discuss the program-a reform initiative created a... More Information and Pricing Details

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