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Jonathan Alter Joins the Teacher-Scapegoating Chorus: I'm Calling BS

Dan Brown | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media

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Dan Brown

Obsessive focus on cleaning house and demanding expecting superhuman performance misses a larger point.

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Freedom Banned

Richard LaGravenese | Posted 07.09.2008 | Media

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Richard LaGravenese

In Perry, Indiana, the School Board has suspended a teacher for allowing her students to read The Freedom Writers Diary. How can it be that they did not see the value of the lessons to be learned?

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10 Recent Releases That Inspire Social Change

TakePart.com | Nicole Hughes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: The Giving Life, Ralph Nader: An Unreasonable Man, This Is England, Helvetica, Can Mr. Smith Get to Washington?, Protagonist, Into Great Silence, Ten Canoes, No End in Sight, Freedom Writers, Peaceful Warrior, Movies and Social Change, Living News

Can movies inspire real change? Of course they can! Films change people, who in turn change the world. Although most folks go to the movies for entert...

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