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Demeaned, suspended, expelled ...TEACHED 3 min
Demeaned, suspended, expelled ...TEACHED (trailer)
Demeaned, suspended, expelled ...TEACHED. This unique series of short films candidly examines issues of race, education and equality. Produced by Loudspeaker Films, TEACHED will open your eyes to the ways America perpetuates injustice against youth of color through public...
Kind is the New Cool
Kind is the New Cool
When I was in high school, I remember social banter consisting of a lot of subtle put-downs and one-upsmanship. The popular kids were generally not very nice, certainly not to us unpopular kids but not even to each other. I remember a few popular kids being nice to me on the...
Charles Eisenstein
3 Destructive Things You Learned in School Without Realizing It
3 Destructive Things You Learned in School Without Realizing It
It was high school. I was 16, and I was pissed off. My English teacher gave us a creative writing assignment: write anything about being in high school. Anything.
Mark Manson
The Five Most Common Misunderstandings About Evolution
The Five Most Common Misunderstandings About Evolution
Given its huge success in describing the natural world for the past 150 years, the theory of evolution is remarkably misunderstood. In a recent episode of the Australian series of “I’m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here”, former cricket star Shane Warne questioned the theory –...
Paula Kover
The Incredible Period of History After The Civil War That America Forgot 6 min
The Incredible Period of History After The Civil War That America Forgot
Americans should know about this period of history. Because the history of racism is also the history of power, and who holds it. And this story continues to this very day.
Why I Teach White History Month in February
Why I Teach White History Month in February
If Whites learn about their radical history, their proud class struggles against the parasitic elites, their defiance of established religions and political powers, maybe they will stop fearing immigrants, “thugs,” and “welfare queens” and once again target corrupt...
Diallo Kenyatta
How to Counter Recruitment and De-Militarize Schools
How to Counter Recruitment and De-Militarize Schools
U.S. military recruiters are teaching in public school classrooms, making presentations at school career days, coordinating with JROTC units in high schools and middle schools, volunteering as sports coaches and tutors and lunch buddies in high, middle, and elementary...
David Swanson
Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
Our Culture Is Driving the World Towards Homogenization on Every Level, but We're Not Even Aware of It
For most of human history — several thousand generations of it, what historians curiously label "pre-history" — human societies lived with a basic sense of cultural relativity. What worked for one people didn't have to work for another. There was no universal template.
Tim Hjersted
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
If You Do Not Transform Your Pain, You Will Transmit It
The crack in your being that pain inflicts is a sacred gift where openness, love, compassion, vulnerability and new inner wisdom can emerge and connect with the world.
William Timothy Walker
Lifting Communities Out From Underdevelopment - India's Barefoot College 11 min
Lifting Communities Out From Underdevelopment - India's Barefoot College
Watch how harnessing human potential along with the sun is improving millions of impoverished lives.
Climate Reality
Something Extraordinary Is Happening in the World, And Most People Haven't Noticed
Something Extraordinary Is Happening in the World, And Most People Haven't Noticed
Most of us haven't quite realized there is something extraordinary happening.
Gustavo Tanaka
Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience 45 min
Ecological Learning Through Direct Experience (2015)
This is a documentary about getting out into the natural world and learning from the wisdom of land and people - focusing on how rewilding our perception might be the catalyst for the changes we wish to see in the world.
The Year We Thought About Love 3 min
The Year We Thought About Love (trailer)
Enjoy our trailer for "The Year We Thought About Love" award-winning feature length documentary about a LGBTQ youth theater troupe.
Kumu Hina 77 min
Kumu Hina (2014) ($5)
Imagine a world where a little boy can grow up to be the woman of his dreams, and a young girl can rise to become a leader of men. Welcome to Kumu Hina's Hawaii. Trailer for award-winning PBS/Independent lens film about a mahu (transgender) teacher in Hawaii and her...
How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt
How the Elite Deal With Sparks of Revolt
“I can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half” —Jay Gould Metanoia Films has released a new documentary, Plutocracy: Divide et Impera (Divide and Rule). It’s the first entry of a multi-part series directed by filmmaker Scott Noble. The movie assembles a...
Bill Blunden
Tale of Two Campuses: White and Black Mizzou
Tale of Two Campuses: White and Black Mizzou
With all of the unrest that has been occurring at my alma mater, The University of Missouri-Columbia, it has caused me to reflect on my own experiences while on campus. I completed both my undergraduate as well as my master's degree at Mizzou and while I had the opportunity...
Erica Wright
Are You Raising A Boy Or A Toxic Man?
Are You Raising A Boy Or A Toxic Man?
We need to start talking to our sons, and tell them that it’s OK to feel and express emotion. That it doesn’t make them any less of a man.
Avital Norman Nathman
'This Girl Don't Got Nobody': On the Violence in a South Carolina Classroom
'This Girl Don't Got Nobody': On the Violence in a South Carolina Classroom
Though a police officer exacted the physical violence caught on camera, a teacher, school administrator, and judge participated in it, too. Each of them prioritized power plays, intimidation, and coercion over teaching and learning in a safe environment.
Khadijah Costley White
Professors in Poverty 4 min
Professors in Poverty
Meet Dr. Wanda Evans-Brewer. She has been teaching for 20 years, has a bachelor’s degree, a master’s degree, and a PhD in Education. She is also living in poverty. Today Professors in Poverty premieres at a Congressional briefing calling on politicians, colleges and...
Brave New Films
When Prince Ea Flips This Track Into Reverse, It All Makes Sense 2 min
When Prince Ea Flips This Track Into Reverse, It All Makes Sense
I Bet Your Favorite Rapper Can't Do This.
College Athletics Are Stealing Your Future 3 min
College Athletics Are Stealing Your Future
We are in a college debt crisis. Almost 70 percent of college students graduate with approximately $30,000 in college debt. In 1992, it was one-third of that average. Why has the cost and burden
Brave New Films
Missing From Presidents' Day: the People They Enslaved
Missing From Presidents' Day: the People They Enslaved
Schools across the country are adorned with posters of the 44 U.S. presidents and the years they serve
Clarence Lusane
Time to Abolish Columbus Day
Time to Abolish Columbus Day
Once again this year many schools will pause to commemorate Christopher Columbus. Given everything we know about who Columbus was and what he launched in the Americas, this needs to stop.
Bill Bigelow
Swapping Screen Time for Getting Dirty: Why Kids Need to Spend More Time Outside
Swapping Screen Time for Getting Dirty: Why Kids Need to Spend More Time Outside
In his new book “How to Raise a Wild Child,” Dr. Scott D. Sampson argues that the current disconnect between kids and the natural world is a threat to their physical, mental, and emotional health.
Shannon Hayes
The Rebellion Crisis
The Rebellion Crisis
In the pursuit of the perfectly behaved child, we have created conditional environments of reward and punishment which lack empathy, connection, and unconditional love.
Dawn Agnos
ESPEJO - a Short Film About Empathy 7 min
ESPEJO - a Short Film About Empathy
"Empathy is not to bring comfort, nor to advise. It is not to judge or try to distract someone from their pain... It means being fully present with the other, to serve as a mirror of their feelings and needs, so that they may find relief and clarity through our attention."
Espejo | The Short-Film about Empathy
Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom 90 min
Class Dismissed: A Film About Learning Outside Of The Classroom (2015) ($2)
"Class Dismissed shows parents a glimpse into the future of education. Everyone concerned with education would benefit by watching this film." - John Taylor Gatto, Former New York State Teacher of the Year and author
10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"
10 Provocative Quotes from Ivan Illich's "Deschooling Society"
Ivan Illich’s groundbreaking book Deschooling Society (1971) offers a radical critique of the institutionalization of education within modern societies. Illich believed that we wrongly identify education with schooling, since most of our education happens outside of the...
Daniel Lattier
History Professor Denies Native Genocide: Native Student Disagreed, Then Says Professor Expelled Her From Course
History Professor Denies Native Genocide: Native Student Disagreed, Then Says Professor Expelled Her From Course
A Cal State Sacramento University professor who allegedly told his United States History class he did not like the term ‘genocide’ in relation to Native Americans in history, told a Native American student who disagreed with him that she was disenrolled and expelled from his...
Vincent Schilling
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong?
Negative consequences, timeouts, and punishment just make bad behavior worse. But a new approach really works.
Katherine Reynolds Lewis
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Sex Education 21 min
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Sex Education
Sex education varies widely between school districts, leaving many teens without comprehensive information. We made a video that covers what some schools are too embarrassed to teach.
LastWeekTonight
Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower 5 min
Living Thinkers: An Autobiography of Black Women in the Ivory Tower (trailer)
LIVING THINKERS examines the intersection of race, class and gender for Black women professors and administrators working in U.S. colleges and universities today.
Cost Of Living In America Today Vs. 1980 2 min
Cost Of Living In America Today Vs. 1980
Most living expenses have gone up in price since 1980 (even when you adjust for inflation). That includes cars, homes, education - almost everything, except for our paychecks. Here's why paying for a house, a car and a college degree was possible in 1980 - but not so much today.
AJ+
Musician Roger Waters Takes The United States to Task 2 min
Musician Roger Waters Takes The United States to Task
Roger Waters, formerly of Pink Floyd, discusses education in the United States and the world view that sets the US apart from "others".
rogerwatersVEVO
Anarchy Now! Chile Elects to Revolt 17 min
Anarchy Now! Chile Elects to Revolt
This week we take a look at the 6 plus year student revolt in Chile, plus ballot burning fury in Mexico and an interview with militants from Santiago who tell us about the anarchist scene there.
sub.Media
Pathways 2 Resilience 11 min
Pathways 2 Resilience
Approximately two years ago a collaborative of Oakland based non and for profit companies and organizations including; The Green Life, Earthseed Consulting, Planting Justice, Wildheart Gardens, Impact Hub Oakland, United Roots, Sustainability Economies Law Center, all...
Endangered Ideas
Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing
Indigenous Knowledge Systems / Alaska Native Ways of Knowing
'The depth of indigenous knowledge rooted in the long inhabitation of a particular place offers lessons that can benefit everyone, from educator to scientist, as we search for a more satisfying and sustainable way to live on this planet.'
Ray Barnhardt and Angayuqaq Oscar Kawagley
The Future of Big-Box Schooling
The Future of Big-Box Schooling
“I think the way western education has grown over the last few centuries, especially with the rise of industrialization, was basically not to create human beings fully equipped to deal with life and all its problems, independent citizens able to exercise their decisions and...
Carol Black
Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self
Your Life Can Be Different: 11 Things I'd Like to Tell My Younger Self
This is a letter to my younger self - both the inner cynic and the idealist that secretly believes a more beautiful world is possible.
Charles Eisenstein
If We Don't Teach Peace, What Are We Teaching?
If We Don't Teach Peace, What Are We Teaching?
Nonviolence, peace, and justice are not utopian dreams but real and practical ways in which humans can affect the world around them.
David Cook
What If Students Controlled Their Own Learning? 15 min
What If Students Controlled Their Own Learning?
Peter Hutton is the principal of Templestowe College, one of the most innovative schools in Australia. He has developed a radical solution, empowering students to control their own learning. No school bell, no year levels. Students take part in the staff selection process and...
TEDxMelbourne
Why Schools Need to Teach and Practice Humanity
Why Schools Need to Teach and Practice Humanity
Schools need to play a major role in developing and creating better humans than merely producing students. We need to question the norm of “Getting excellent results Vs. Being an Excellent human being”. There needs to be a balance in terms of both gaining knowledge and being...
Mithula Guganeshan
A Science Of Teaching 42 min
A Science Of Teaching (2015)
A SCIENCE OF TEACHING offers a comprehensive guide for teachers, educators, and anyone else interested in human behavior on how learning occurs at a biological and environmental level. What shapes our behavior? How do our behaviors become reinforced? What are some useful...
From Graduation to Garbage Job (literally): One Twentysomething's struggle
From Graduation to Garbage Job (literally): One Twentysomething's struggle
Jackie Roche
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
Seven Sins of Our System of Forced Education
Sometimes I find, no matter how uncomfortable it makes me and others feel, I have to speak the truth. We can use all the euphemisms we want, but the literal truth is that schools, as they generally exist in the United States and other modern countries, are prisons. Human...
Peter Gray, Ph.D.
The Unlikely Librarian 4 min
The Unlikely Librarian
A story by Our Better World - telling stories of good to inspire action.
Our Better World
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing 18 min
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Standardized Testing
American students face a ridiculous amount of testing. John Oliver explains how standardized tests impact school funding, the achievement gap, how often kids are expected to throw up.
LastWeekTonight
It's Time to Rewild the Child 3 min
It's Time to Rewild the Child
George Monbiot argues that the more time children spend in the classroom, the worse they do at school because our narrow education system only rewards a particular skill set. He says that when you take failing pupils to the countryside, they often thrive – yet funding for...
Comment is Free
Overcoming the Shock Doctrine
Overcoming the Shock Doctrine
Lately, we’ve been talking about the techniques of manipulation used by the government and mass media, regarding the privatization of public education, and all public benefits. In these first months of legislature, the better part of this manipulation has been aimed at...
Soy Pública
The Hunting Ground 2 min
The Hunting Ground (trailer)
From the team behind THE INVISIBLE WAR, comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.S. campuses, institutional cover-ups and the brutal social toll on victims and their families. Weaving together verité footage and first-person testimonies, the film follows survivors as they...
The NRA Plan to Push Campus Carry 3 min
The NRA Plan to Push Campus Carry
In 2014, 14 States around the nation introduced bills to allow guns to be carried on college campuses under the guise that more guns will equal safer schools. In the wake of Sandy Hook, multiple shootings on college campuses, and the up turn in media attention on Campus...
Brave New Films
Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it
Anthropology Is so Important, All Children Should Learn it
Anthropology, the study of humankind, should be the first of all the sciences our children encounter, writes Marc Brightman, with its singular capacity to inspire the imagination, broaden the mind and open the heart. Moves to downgrade it in the education system by those who...
Marc Brightman
In Amsterdam, A Revolt Against The Neoliberal University
In Amsterdam, A Revolt Against The Neoliberal University
For three weeks now, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) has been shaken by a wave of student protests against the neoliberalization of higher education and the lack of democratic account
Jerome Roos
Alfie Kohn: The 3 Most Basic Needs of Children & Why Schools Fail 8 min
Alfie Kohn: The 3 Most Basic Needs of Children & Why Schools Fail
What students most need, high schools seem almost designed to thwart.
Christian G
9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out 59 min
9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out (2012)
This 60-minute version of the original 88-minute 2012 documentary 9/11: Explosive Evidence - Experts Speak Out, Final Edition (ESO) was broadcast in 2012 on Colorado Public Television (CPT12) in the USA. It was streamed on PBS national website as a result, and subsequently...
Richard Gage
Slam Poetry Trio Gives Powerful Performance on National TV about the Failures of Modern Education 4 min
Slam Poetry Trio Gives Powerful Performance on National TV about the Failures of Modern Education
"The greatest lessons are the ones you don't remember learning."  Belissa Escobedo, Rhiannon McGavin, and Zariya Allen, members of the Get Lit organization perform "Somewhere in America" on the The Queen Latifah Show.
The Queen Latifah Show
Malala. One Girl. Among many 3 min
Malala. One Girl. Among many
Girls from around the world recite the words of Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai to campaign for education as part of Plan's Because I am a Girl campaign.
Plan International
This Will Revolutionize Education 7 min
This Will Revolutionize Education
Many technologies have promised to revolutionize education, but so far none has. With that in mind, what could revolutionize education? These ideas have been percolating since I wrote my PhD in physics education.
Veritasium
The Art of Happiness 9 min
The Art of Happiness
Based on Dalai Lama's book "Art of happiness". A short illustration of the reckless but powerful human mind. Footage from a trip to India and Nepal in 2012. Shot and cut by Samir Bernardes May the happiness be with you!
ZionTrainMedia
The Innovative and Creative Power of ADHD
The Innovative and Creative Power of ADHD
One psychologist argues that we should consider people with ADHD to be highly imaginative people rather than people with a learning disability.
Angus Chen and Mythili Rao
Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food 3 min
Free Range Child: Raising Children Connected To The Earth & Their Food
"As a child, one has that magical capacity to move among the many eras of the earth; to see the land as an animal does; to experience the sky from the perspective of a flower or a bee; to feel the earth quiver and breathe beneath us; to know a hundred different smells of mud...
Carl Sagan - A Way of Thinking 9 min
Carl Sagan - A Way of Thinking
"Science is more than a body of knowledge, it's a way of thinking." Carl Sagan
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Student Debt 16 min
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Student Debt
John Oliver discusses student debt, which is awful, as well as for-profit colleges, who are awfully good at inflicting debt upon us. Connect with Last Week Tonight online...
The Permaculture Design Course : Learning to See the World differently 9 min
The Permaculture Design Course : Learning to See the World differently
The Permaculture Design Course (PDC) has become one of the most popular standards in permaculture training. Hear from trainers Ben Falk and Mark Krawczyk and from participants during a PDC held in Vermont by Whole Systems Design, about how such courses can teach us to view...
The Natural Teacher: 10 Ways You Can Add Vitamin "N" to the Classroom & Beyond
The Natural Teacher: 10 Ways You Can Add Vitamin "N" to the Classroom & Beyond
Not long ago I met some dedicated young women who were doing their student teaching at an impressive nature-based preschool. They made it clear that they’d love to pursue careers at similar schools. But they were discouraged about the prospects. Despite growing demand from...
Richard Louv
Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy 15 min
Everyone Growing Up In Our Culture Was Taught This Game, But It's Not Making Anyone Happy
After you watch this, you may never view the way our culture communicates the same way again.
Why Children Protest Going to School
Why Children Protest Going to School
Most children in our society protest going to school. Am I telling you something new?
Peter Gray
Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School
Why You Should Take Your Kids Out of School
We don't need no education. At least not of the traditional, compulsory, watch-the-clock-until-the-bell-rings kind. As a growing movement of unschoolers believe, a steady diet of standardized testing and indoor inactivity is choking the creativity right out of our kids. The...
Ben Hewitt
A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning
A Thousand Rivers: What the Modern World has Forgotten about Children and Learning
The following statement somehow showed up on my Twitter feed the other day:
Carol Black
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan's Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
Maria Popova
This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System 2 min
This Painting Captures a Disturbing Truth about the History of Our Education System
The truth is chilling. But it is a history we should never forget.
Why Aren't We Teaching Rachel Carson in Schools?
Why Aren't We Teaching Rachel Carson in Schools?
This is what you shall do: love the earth and the sun and the animals… -- Walt Whitman Rachel Carson wrote Silent Spring in 1962, but I suspect for most people reading it today the information would be fresh, enlightening, and alarming.  I can say that with some confidence...
Robert Shetterly
Her Classmates Drew Swastikas On The Blackboard. Watch What She Did. 2 min
Her Classmates Drew Swastikas On The Blackboard. Watch What She Did.
Irshad Manji tells the story of shutting up when she should have been standing up. It was a teachable moment.
MoralCourageChannel
The Lottery of Birth 76 min
The Lottery of Birth (2013)
Do you shape the world or does it shape you? Drawing on leading thinkers from around the world, and with a torrent of mind-expanding ideas and information, THE LOTTERY OF BIRTH will make you think again about what it means to be free.
Joshua van Praag
The Great Fallacy 86 min
The Great Fallacy (trailer)
"“The Great Fallacy,” Paco Vázquez’s dense, lively new film about economic and sociological issues in Puerto Rico, eschews the storytelling form of many contemporary documentaries in favor of an instructive crash course in radical politics. It is propaganda, an educational...
Student Gives One of the Best Cases Against Teacher Evaluations 5 min
Student Gives One of the Best Cases Against Teacher Evaluations
Ethan Young, a student at Farragut High School in Knox County, Tenn., made his case as to why he believes the school district should drop the new national education standards, a set of guidelines that were never voted on by Congress, the Department of Education nor by local...
Ethan Young
Nonviolent Communication Basics 185 min
Nonviolent Communication Basics
The Basics of Nonviolent Communication with Marshall Rosenberg, Phd, is a recorded presentation of a 1-day workshop held in San Francisco, CA in April 2000.  "The purpose of Nonviolent Communication is to help you learn what you already know how to do... but forget ...
Jonas Dalmose
Why Do These Kids Love School? 57 min
Why Do These Kids Love School? (1999)
This award-winning film features nine unique schools, both public and private, California to East Harlem. In these unique schools, relationship, creative thinking, and direct experience are valued above memorization of facts. As we struggle with issues of how to provide a...
We Are The People We've Been Waiting For 77 min
We Are The People We've Been Waiting For (2009)
This film from the UK looks at several children who do not thrive in conventional schooling for a variety of reasons, and asks how we can bring the best out in each child instead of measuring them against a one-size-fits-all standard and labeling them as failures. "This...
Ivory Tower 2 min
Ivory Tower (trailer)
As tuition rates spiral beyond reach and student loan debt passes $1 trillion (more than credit card debt), IVORY TOWER asks: Is college worth the cost? From the halls of Harvard, to public colleges in financial crisis, to Silicon Valley, filmmaker Andrew Rossi (PAGE ONE...
Koch brothers help Kansas lawmakers strip teachers of due process rights
Koch brothers help Kansas lawmakers strip teachers of due process rights
The Kansas legislature just passed legislation that strips teachers of  the right to due process, a move pushed by conservative lawmakers who were forced by a state Supreme Court ruling to provide more funding to poor school districts and wanted to get something out of the...
Valerie Strauss
Sir Ken Robinson - How Are You Intelligent? 8 min
Sir Ken Robinson - How Are You Intelligent?
"Imagination is the source of every form of human achievement. And it's the one thing that I believe we are systematically jeopardizing in the way we educate our children and ourselves." Ken Robinson Music: The Heroic Weather-Conditions of the Universe, Pt. 1: A Veiled Mist, Pt.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Most Human Activity 5 min
Neil DeGrasse Tyson - The Most Human Activity
"We spend the first year of a child's life teaching them to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there."
Sir Ken Robinson - The Power of Imagination 6 min
Sir Ken Robinson - The Power of Imagination
"We have an extraordinary human power... the power of imagination" Ken Robinson
The Inspiration Journey
NASA Astronaut on 'Gravity', Mars Colonization & Sex in Space | Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao 13 min
NASA Astronaut on 'Gravity', Mars Colonization & Sex in Space | Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao
Abby Martin's exclusive interview with former NASA Astronaut and ISS Commander, Leroy Chiao, about US-Russian cooperation in space, life on other words and the reality of the film 'Gravity'. LIKE Breaking the Set @ http://fb.me/BreakingTheSet FOLLOW Abby Martin @...
Interview with Dr. Leroy Chiao
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx 13 min
Extending Our Circle of Compassion: Zoe Weil at Tedx
Over the centuries, our culture has been slowly but gradually extending its circle of compassion. Our capacity to have compassion for those 'not like us' (whether the difference be defined by race, gender, nationality, religion or species) is one of the great challenges and...
TEDx Talks
Bullied to Silence (trailer) 3 min
Bullied to Silence (trailer)
This is THE Film about Bullying you MUST SEE! Bullied to Silence provides hope and a path for change to anyone who has ever witnessed or experienced being bullied or a bully.
Letter Grades for Students Get an 'F'
Letter Grades for Students Get an 'F'
Imagine the following exercise: You enter with your spouse, partner or good friend. The purpose is to deepen and improve your relationship through honest communication -- a mutual assessment for growth.
Steve Nelson
Moyers & Company: Politics' Effect on Science & Education 26 min
Moyers & Company: Politics' Effect on Science & Education
Astrophysicist and celebrity science advocate Neil deGrasse Tyson recently, and at great length, discussed the importance of scientific literacy with Bill Moyers.
Moyers & Company
Slutwalk: A Day In Her Heels 17 min
Slutwalk: A Day In Her Heels
Slutwalk. After a local police chief accused college women of dressing like sluts, the students created a demonstration movement called Slutwalk. It is growing and getting attention. Slutwalk was made by students at Rowan University in the documentary production class taught...
PACT5
Red Blooded Men 23 min
Red Blooded Men
Red Blooded Men is a documentary that covers multiple aspects of college life through a male's perspective. Through various interviews, from Northern Illinois University to the University of Iowa, and other schools across the country, we hope to enlighten audiences about...
PACT5
Meditation Transforms Roughest San Francisco Schools
Meditation Transforms Roughest San Francisco Schools
At first glance, Quiet Time - a stress reduction strategy used in several San Francisco middle and high schools, as well as in scattered schools around the Bay Area - looks like something out of the om-chanting 1960s. Twice daily, a gong sounds in the classroom and rowdy...
David L. Kirp
Perspectives 13 min
Perspectives
Perspectives asks the question: Given all that we know, why does sexual assault happen? "Perspectives" looks at different levels of knowledge (and experience) with sexual assault and rape on college and university campuses in the greater Boston area.
Invisible Fight 14 min
Invisible Fight
Invisible Fight is part documentary and part fictional film, with the focus on highlighting the stupidity and injustice of victim blaming. First-person testimonials of actual survivors of sexual assault are combined with vignettes depicting real world scenarios of assault...
PACT5
$5 For Guys, Girls Free 16 min
$5 For Guys, Girls Free
$5 for Guys. Girls Free is a re-enacted close-up of the college generation and how quickly a typical night out can go wrong. The story is led by a Spoken Word artist and complemented by a sexual assault Psychologist. We took an interesting twist on the form of documentary and...
PACT5
One Country is Digitizing All Books, And Making Them Free For Its Citizens
One Country is Digitizing All Books, And Making Them Free For Its Citizens
The news: Norway is well on its way to digitizing every book in its National Library and making them all free to access for any Norwegian citizen. That means hundreds of thousands of books will be available to anyone accessing the collection online with a Norwegian IP address.
Benjamin Cosman
Here's Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make US Public Colleges Tuition-Free
Here's Exactly How Much the Government Would Have to Spend to Make US Public Colleges Tuition-Free
And the grand total is...
Jordan Weissmann
Valhalla: Breaking Through To The New Sustainable Paradigm 4 min
Valhalla: Breaking Through To The New Sustainable Paradigm
Valhalla is a sustainable community hell-bent on inspiring people to be the change they wish to see. Together we can create the beautiful world our hearts tell us is possible.
Valhalla Movement
The SOLD Project: Five Years 14 min
The SOLD Project: Five Years
Five Years celebrates the power of education to change the life of a child at-risk for sex trafficking. When Mai is solicited by a trafficker to enter the sex trade, we see the influence that education and positive mentorship can have to empower a girl to achieve her dreams...
The Freedom Story
The Kingdom of Children 10 min
The Kingdom of Children
Have a look at how photography is actually creating futures. Deep in the beautiful mountain kingdom of Lesotho, Picture Aid travels to meet one of the children that are supported with education through a picture hanging on a wall: A 15 year old girl who dreams of becoming a...
PictureAid
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