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Growing Up
in The City
Sasha, Paul, Jessica and James attend the
same magnet school on the upper west side of Manhattan in New
York City. In this three-part series, host John Merrow takes
you on an engaging and honest journey inside these young adolescent's
lives, who differ in race, gender, and ethnic background.
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Will
the school be "attacked" on Halloween? Do my clothes have
the "right" label? Am I pretty enough? This segment explores
the fears and pressures adolescents face in today's complex
and rapidly changing world– gang violence, the hunger
to be cool, boyfriends and girlfriends... told from the
heart and in their own words.
Original airdate: April, 1999 (Running
time: 56 minutes) |
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How
do adolescents struggle with the meaning of color and the discovery
that race is becoming a defining issues in their lives? In this
segment young adolescents talk about a variey of race-related
issues, from dating "one's own kind," to being a young black
male in a white-dominated society, to being one of the only
white girls at a public school.
Original airdate: April, 1999 (Running time:
56 minutes) |
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This segment focuses on the home life of five
adolescents, in particular, on the adults who are struggling
to raise them. They are typical urban Americans and their dilemmas
are age-old: how to help their children combat negative peer
pressure, how to teach them city safety without making them
overly fearful; when to hold on to their young adolescents and
when to grant them the freedom they desire.
Original airdate: April, 1999 (Running time:
56 minutes) |
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This
program brings the 150-year record of public education to life.
While history tells us that Americans have great faith in public
education, it also shows we rarely agree on exactly what public
schools are supposed to do. In Schools We Trust provides a useful
context for understanding today's arguments.
Original airdate: January, 1997 (Running time:
56 minutes)
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We
spend more than $220 billion a year on public schools, and millions
more on lawyers fighting about how we spend it. What are we
getting for our money? This documentary points out how money
makes a huge difference in schools.
Original
airdate: February, 1995 (Running time:
56 minutes) |
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Dawn Marcal is 25. She lives in San Francisco. She is HIV positive
and has AIDS. Dawn has chosen to do volunteer work in local
high schools-- educating students to the consequences of experimenting
with drugs and sex at an early age. Dawn is also putting a face
on a disease that most everyone has heard about but has not
experienced on a personal level.
Original airdate: June, 1991 (Running time: 24
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This
documentary explores the successes and failures of different
types of language programs– English only, bilingual, and
dual. Host John Merrow talks to Latino youth and educators to
uncover additional reasons many Latino youth are falling through
the cracks. Available in both English and Spanish.
Original airdate: October, 1998 (Running time:
56 minutes) |
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Unable
to find enough qualified teachers for its worst public schools,
New York City set up a crash program--one month of training--for
350 men and women. Called 'Teaching Fellows', they're earning
$31,500 and getting free tuition toward a Masters Degree, in
return for a 2-year commitment. Twelve of the Teaching Fellows
were assigned to PS/IS 25, in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section
of Brooklyn, NY. It's a Kindergarten thru Eighth grade school
with 750 students. (Running time: 90 minutes) |
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