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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe New Public on Poverty and Education
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2013/11/11-8The negative impact of poverty on a childs educational achievement is indisputable. Whether the metric is school grades, state assessments, the National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP), the SATthe scores of low-income children are far lower than those of their wealthier peers. The reasons for that gapand how our nation should respondis the subject of heated debate and is explored by filmmaker Jyllian Gunther in the award-winning documentary, The New Public.
The film is inspiring and sobering as it examines the experiences of students and teachers at the Brooklyn Community Arts & Media (BCAM) High School. BCAM is a new, small public school in Bedford-Stuyvesant, where one-third of the residents live below the poverty line and the graduation rate is 40 percent.
With nuance and humor, Gunther shows how poverty presents many obstacles to effective teaching and strong learning. It showcases BCAMs ability to overcome some of those obstacles through relationship-building and teaching to students strengths. But it also demonstrates that no matter how dedicated and focused the teachers and leaders are, a school will too often be unable to transform its students academic lives.
Gunther follows BCAMs inaugural class during its freshman year, and then returns to document its senior year as well. Several of the Bed-Stuy ninth-graders entering BCAMs doors speak frankly of their unhappiness at their past schools. Students and parents discuss the failures in those schools to reach students, or of being kicked out or asked to leave.
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The New Public on Poverty and Education (Original Post)
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Nov 2013
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daleanime
(17,796 posts)1. K&R....
Bookmarked.
Too many good films to watch.
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