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The College Track: America’s Sorting Machine DVD
SKU: FIL33335
It’s about closing the achievement gap and implementing best practices.
It’s about raising expectations and lowering barriers.
It’s about a heart-to-heart partnership of educators and parents.
Isn’t it about time to start some honest discussions in your community?
Learn more about the unintended consequences of educational tracking in public schools. See innovative model solutions for bringing these students back onto the college track with this tim...
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The Downward Spiral: Oxycontin and Opiate Addiction
SKU: BRADOW
Oxycontin abuse has grown faster than the abuse of any other prescription drug in decades according to the DEA. The drug is as addictive than heroin as it affects the brain and the body in the same way as heroin. Thousands of people have been affected, often fatally, by the misuse of this drug, a time-released painkiller. Many began taking the pills for a medical condition, and end up getting hooked. Others who take opiates for “recreation” think it’s “just another feel-good pill,” ...
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The Drugging of Our Children: Inside the ADHD Controversy DVD
SKU: FILDRU
Some doctors are wary of prescribing medication for ADD or ADHD, especially when treating young patients—but the majority rely on psychotropic drugs. This program challenges the status quo, supported by a staggering amount of testimony and documentation. Incorporating detailed interviews with psychiatrists, neurologists, and education experts—as well as parents and kids who have suffered because of rigid prescription practices—the program analyzes links between school procedures, the me...
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The Einstein Effect: Savants and Creativity
SKU: BVL36424
Mute until the age of nine, Stephen Wiltshire learned to communicate through realistic, richly detailed drawings. Alonzo Clemens sculpts clay animal figures with great precision, even though he can barely form a sentence. Matt Savage faced extraordinary developmental problems as a child but has become a teen prodigy among jazz musicians. What is the relationship between creativity and autistic behavior? Why does slow learning—such as the young Albert Einstein experienced—sometimes conceal...
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The Goose Creek Raid: Racially Motivated? DVD
SKU: FIL33635
The scene seemed out of place for Goose Creek, South Carolina’s highly rated, suburban high school: policemen with their guns drawn forcing more than 100 students to the floor. It turned out to be a drug raid gone wrong; no drugs were found. So why did Stratford High School Principal George McCrackin reportedly call for the raid to quell the school’s perceived drug problem? Was it because a majority of the "potential suspects" in the raid were African-American—who are the minority at th...
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The Power to Overcome Failure
SKU: FILPOW
When a child is promised some kind of prize—such as candy, a toy, or money—for completing a task successfully, his or her drive to succeed often surges. But what effect does such carrot-dangling have on long-term motivation and progress? This program explores the relationship between rewards and human development, contrasting performance goals with learning goals. Simple observational experiments with babies, toddlers, and elementary- and middle-school students demonstrate that immediate ...
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The Problem with Boys: Falling Behind in School and Life DVD
SKU: FIL37476
According to education statistics across North America, boys now perform poorly compared with girls—and with boys of previous generations. What is causing this trend? What can be done to help both genders succeed? This program presents insights from experts in child development—including Dr. William Pollack, Harvard clinical psychologist and author of Real Boys, and Jean-Claude St. Amant, Senior Education Researcher at the University of Laval; it also surveys male teenagers themselves abo...
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The Street Scenes Series
SKU: BRASTR
This 4 DVD Series Tackles today’s most widespread Substance abuse problems: Prescription Drugs, Oxycontin™ and Opiate Abuse, Ecstasy and Club Drugs
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Thin: Death by Eating Disorder
SKU: FIL36518
A form of slow suicide: that is what eating disorders are. Filmed at The Renfrew Center of South Florida, this program closely follows four women, ages 15 to 30, into the weighing room, group and individual therapy sessions, the bedroom, and even the bathroom when the film’s subjects relapse and purge. It also examines the pervasiveness of restrictive eating behaviors as well as the failure of the health insurance industry to address its clients’ needs, while never shifting focus from the...
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Who Owns America? Economic Crisis in the United States
SKU: FIL39553
The United States, the world’s strongest economic power, is also the world’s largest debtor nation. Will America’s ever-increasing trade imbalance and economic deficit trigger a global economic calamity? This program travels from East Coast to West via the Rust Belt to check the financial pulse of the nation—and to capture in images the reality of an economic system spinning out of control. Nobel Laureate Joseph Stiglitz, economists Paul Krugman and Mark Brenner, and Harvard’s Kenne...
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Who's In, Who's Out DVD
SKU: FIL33336
Contrary to popular belief, adequate preparation for college-level study is not an option for the majority of America's public-school students. This program exposes the educational "sorting machine," the factors that mold a child's academic future, through the case of a set of twins from Nevada: one, an academically oriented high achiever who is encouraged to take honors classes, and the other, a musically inclined student who, turned off by the demands of school, is allowed to simply slide b...
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