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Pages in category "Documentary films about education in the United States" The following 53 pages are in this category, out of 53 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The War on Kids is a 2009 documentary film about the American school system directed by Cevin Soling.The film examines American public education and argues that many public school systems are not only failing to educate, but are increasingly authoritarian institutions that are eroding the foundations of American democracy.
Pages in category "Films about the education system in the United States" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Cohen, Sol, ed. Education in the United States: A Documentary History (5 vol, 1974). 3400 pages of primary sources; Diener, Thomas. Growth of an American Invention: A Documentary History of the Junior and Community College Movement. Greenwood, 1986. 249 pp.
Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. [2] The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into competitive charter schools such as KIPP LA Schools, Harlem Success Academy and Summit Preparatory Charter High School.
The history of higher education in the United States begins in 1636 and continues to the present time. American higher education is known throughout the world for its dramatic expansion. It was also heavily influenced by British models in the colonial era, and German models in the 19th century.
Cubberley argued that the foundations of the modern education system were influenced by processes of democratization in Europe and the United States. It was a story of enlightenment and modernization triumphing over ignorance, cost-cutting, and narrow traditionalism whereby parents tried to block their children's intellectual access to the ...
History of education in New York City; History of education in the Southern United States; History of higher education in the United States; History of Higher Education of Women in the South, Prior to 1860; History of school counseling in the United States; Hosic Report on the Reorganization of English in the Secondary Schools