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"Teach Us All" explores hyper-segregated schools around the country where at least 75% of students are of the same race. | "Teach Us All" explores hyper-segregated schools around the country where at least 75% of students are of the same race. | ||
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Three still-living members of the "Little Rock Nine," the first African American students to attend an all-white public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, describe the bullying they endured from the white community while trying to attend the school, including verbal taunting, spitting, threats, and shunning from classmates. These testimonials are highlighted by archival photographs from that time of the Little Rock Nine as they approached the school. While the tragic message of the documentary is that, particularly in the last 30 years, segregation in American schools has gotten much worse -- with plenty of disheartening statistics to back it up -- the documentary also takes a look at the positive role models in the past (such as the Little Rock Nine) and in the present who are trying to bring about lasting change and diversity in the classroom. <ref>https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/teach-us-al</ref> | Three still-living members of the "Little Rock Nine," the first African American students to attend an all-white public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, describe the bullying they endured from the white community while trying to attend the school, including verbal taunting, spitting, threats, and shunning from classmates. These testimonials are highlighted by archival photographs from that time of the Little Rock Nine as they approached the school. While the tragic message of the documentary is that, particularly in the last 30 years, segregation in American schools has gotten much worse -- with plenty of disheartening statistics to back it up -- the documentary also takes a look at the positive role models in the past (such as the Little Rock Nine) and in the present who are trying to bring about lasting change and diversity in the classroom. <ref>https://www.commonsensemedia.org/movie-reviews/teach-us-al</ref> | ||
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The film is organized in three collaborative themes: the teacher’s role in influencing young people’s lives, the need for community engagement for school success, and the power of the students who will be charged with the fight for their right to education equity. Through case studies in Little Rock, New York City, and Los Angeles, the feature-length documentary film seeks to bring the critical lessons of history to bear on the current state of U.S. education and investigate how far have we come – or not come – and where do we go from here. <ref>https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/teach-us-all</ref> | The film is organized in three collaborative themes: the teacher’s role in influencing young people’s lives, the need for community engagement for school success, and the power of the students who will be charged with the fight for their right to education equity. Through case studies in Little Rock, New York City, and Los Angeles, the feature-length documentary film seeks to bring the critical lessons of history to bear on the current state of U.S. education and investigate how far have we come – or not come – and where do we go from here. <ref>https://www.civilrightsmuseum.org/teach-us-all</ref> | ||
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Revision as of 09:47, 13 January 2021
Teach Us All is a documentary and social justice campaign on educational inequality set against the backdrop of the 1957 Little Rock school crisis. Sixty years after the Little Rock Nine faced violent resistance when desegregating Central High in Arkansas, America’s schools continue to represent the key battleground of the Civil Rights Movement. Teach Us All demonstrates powerful lessons from history within a timely context, emphasizing the need for unity and collective action to rectify the disparities among America’s children. "Teach Us All" explores hyper-segregated schools around the country where at least 75% of students are of the same race.
Plot
Three still-living members of the "Little Rock Nine," the first African American students to attend an all-white public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1957, describe the bullying they endured from the white community while trying to attend the school, including verbal taunting, spitting, threats, and shunning from classmates. These testimonials are highlighted by archival photographs from that time of the Little Rock Nine as they approached the school. While the tragic message of the documentary is that, particularly in the last 30 years, segregation in American schools has gotten much worse -- with plenty of disheartening statistics to back it up -- the documentary also takes a look at the positive role models in the past (such as the Little Rock Nine) and in the present who are trying to bring about lasting change and diversity in the classroom. [1]
Messages
The film is organized in three collaborative themes: the teacher’s role in influencing young people’s lives, the need for community engagement for school success, and the power of the students who will be charged with the fight for their right to education equity. Through case studies in Little Rock, New York City, and Los Angeles, the feature-length documentary film seeks to bring the critical lessons of history to bear on the current state of U.S. education and investigate how far have we come – or not come – and where do we go from here. [2]