Please Vote for Meby Weijun Chen Please Vote for Me follows 8-year-old students in an elementary school in China as they campaign for class monitor. Independent Lens, Global Voices, Global Perspectives Collection | |
Precious Knowledgeby Ari Luis Palos and Eren Isabel McGinnis When a highly successful Mexican American Studies program at a high school in Tucson comes under fire for teaching ethnic chauvinism, teachers and students fight back in a modern civil rights struggle. Independent Lens | |
The Revisionariesby Scott Thurman The theory of evolution and U.S. history are caught in the crosshairs when an unabashed creationist seeks re-election as chairman of America’s most influential board of education. Independent Lens | |
School Prayer: A Community at Warby Slawomir Grunberg and Ben Crane Profile of a Mississippi mother of six who sues her school district to remove prayer and religious instruction from public schools. POV | |
Shaker Heights: The Struggle for Integrationby Stuart Math Documents a town's efforts to create an integrated community. | |
Solar Mamasby Mona Eldaief and Jehane Noujaim Jordanian wife and mother Rafea is leaving home for the first time — to attend a college in India that is training rural women to become solar energy engineers. Global Perspectives Collection, Women and Girls Lead, Independent Lens, Diverse Muslim Voices, Why Poverty? | |
Sons of Cubaby Andrew Lang Deep in the the unseen heart of modern-day Cuba, a group of unforgettable young boxers fights not only for their own dreams, for the fading memory of the Revolution. Global Voices | |
Southern Belleby Kathy Conkwright and Mary Makley Southern Belle is an insider's look at the 1861 Athenaeum Girls' School where young women from around the world signed up to become that iconic and romantic image of southern identity — the southern belle. | |
Speaking in Tonguesby Marcia Jarmel and Ken Schneider Four children — learning to be bilingual and bicultural — raise questions about what it means to be American in the 21st century. | |
Street Soldiersby Avon Kirkland San Francisco's Omega Boys Club reaches out to America's most endangered: young African American men. |
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