Henry Carter Hull

An exploration of the debate over the education of boys and sex difference in education that discusses reasons boys may be falling behind and examines what can be done to help them.

Journalist Paul Tough discusses what he believes creates successful children, looking at why some succeed and others fail and how to move individual children toward their full potential for success.

Based upon his examination of sixty public schools, the author maintains that the educational status of inner-city schools have worsened since the dismantling of the Brown v. Board of Education ruling.

We produced this film over twenty-five years ago, at a time, when most people with disabilities were excluded from education and often warehoused in such institutional settings as hospitals for the mentally ill, adult residential centers and large group homes. Allowing people with disabilities into regular school classrooms, job sites and other community activities is known as mainstreaming or inclusion. Regular Lives, portrays early, successful...

Traces the increase in interns in businesses from the late twentieth to the early twenty first century and discusses the lack of benefits and legal securities granted to interns in comparison to the profits firms bank by exploiting their roles in the workplace.

"Co-Winner of the 2005 Gladys M. Kammerer Award, American Political Science Association" Charles T. Clotfelter is Z. Smith Reynolds Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics and Law at Duke University. He is also a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. His books include Buying the Best: Cost Escalation in Elite Higher Education (Princeton). The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v. Board...

Graduating Peter is the sequel to the Academy Award®-winning film Educating Peter. This inspiring and thought-provoking follow-up to the 1992 Academy Award-winning documentary Educating Peter highlights the experiences of Peter Gwasdauskis, a child with Down syndrome, in sixth grade, eighth grade, and high school as he adds speech therapy and life skills classes and on-the-job training to his academic coursework. Interviews with Peters parents,...

Wolff presents an engaging, provocative history of American ideas, told through the educations (both in and out of school) of 12 great figures, from Benjamin Franklin to Elvis Presley.

"A memoir of race, inequality, and the power of literature told through the life-changing friendship between an idealistic young teacher and her gifted student, jailed for murder in the Mississippi Delta."--