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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increase in crime since 1994, and the phenomenon of hikikomori children—those who have collapsed emotionally and withdrawn from societ...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Making Schools Work: Robert Slavin on Success for All DVD
SKU: FIL35143
In this interview, Robert Slavin, Ph.D., talks with Hedrick Smith about Success for All, a comprehensive, research-based reading and math program for elementary and middle schools. The most important objective, says Dr. Slavin, “is to get every single child to be successful, every single child to...
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Managing the Difficult Group DVD
SKU: FIL33599
Every teacher has been there—staring in the face of a difficult student or group of students threatening to thwart the progress of the day’s lesson. But how can the teacher handle the conflict in a way that benefits everyone? Frustrated back-and-forth shouting between teacher and student should n...
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Math Can Take You Places
SKU: FIL36233
With American schools struggling to boost mathematics scores, math teachers need all the guidance they can get. This bilingual program contains a powerful tool-chest full of lesson demonstrations, professional development videos, and an interactive quiz—all designed to help educators develop real...
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Measuring Success in Treatment for Autism DVD
SKU: FIL35410
Four years have gone by since the two preschool boys profiled in Autism and Applied Behavioral Analysis began intensive ABA therapy—formerly considered controversial, but now hailed as one of the few effective approaches to treating the disorder. This ABC News program brings viewers up to date on...
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Memory Masters: How Savants Store Information
SKU: FILMEM
Reudiger Gamm performs complex arithmetic instantly and without help—his brain stores numbers like a calculator. Orlando Sorrel remembers exactly what he was doing on any date, at any hour, and can accurately predict the day of the week thousands of years in the future. Kim Peek—the original “Rai...
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