Movie Review: ‘The Class’: Finally, a teacher movie that gets it
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View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Heart of Stone’: One principal’s fight to take back his school
by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY The most striking image from Heart of Stone, the recent documentary about Weequahic High School in Newark, NJ, a school devastated by gang violence, is of principal, Ron Stone, in...
View ArticleShould high school students read ‘Push’?
Every year I’ve got a handful of students (girls mostly) who fight over the two or three copies of Sapphire’s 'Push' in my classroom library. If you don’t know about 'Push'—and, honestly, at this...
View ArticleMovie Review: Waiting for Superman: Or just another Clark Kent playing dress-up?
Let me make this clear right away. I think this is a bad documentary. As a piece of journalism, it’s lazy and manipulative. As a “methodical dissection” of our public education system (which the film’s...
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