The Standard Deviants: The Adventurous World of College Algebra, Part 1

One Child Left Behind: The Untold Atlanta Cheating Scandal

In 2009, 1,176 Atlanta teachers were investigated for test cheating; 35 were indicted, 12 went to trial and 11 were found guilty on RICO charges, whic

2019

Preschool to Prison

Preschool to Prison is a compelling examination of how the United States public school system is built and operated like prisons. Zero-tolerance polic

2023

The Making of a Japanese

Intimately following 1st and 6th graders at a public elementary school in Tokyo, we observe kids learning the traits necessary to become part of Japan

2023

A School for Life!

A satirical presentation of the public school debate, exhibiting three different teaching methods. First, the authoritarian education system of old; S

1978

Baby Signing Time Vol. 3: A New Day

Baby Signing Time is a great first step into signing or add Baby Signing Time to your existing Signing Time collection for new songs and reinforcement

2008

Alternative Math

A well meaning math teacher finds herself trumped by a post-fact America.

2017

The Reading Boy

A boy living in the countryside with only his dog and his grandfather as companions struggles through life with the overwhelming longing for his paren

2012

Vocacional: Uma Aventura Humana

The clash of a libertarian school with the military dictatorship in the 60s. An exciting and little-known page in the history of public education in B

2011

Teach Me If You Can

The three teachers Svetlana, Sandrine and Taslima teach children and young people in places that are hardly accessible for “normal” lessons - in a nom

2021

With All Deliberate Speed

Documentary filmmaker Peter Gilbert unearths the legacy of the landmark Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education — where it was ruled tha

2004

Fear and Learning at Hoover Elementary

If Proposition 187 makes it through the courts, will hall duty become border patrol in California public schools? Fourth-grade-teacher-turned-filmmake

1997

The Motivation Factor: to Become Smart, Productive & Mentally Stable

This award-winning documentary shows the irreplaceable role classical Physical Education plays to develop smart, productive and mentally stable citize

2017

American Promise

In 1999, filmmakers Joe Brewster and Michèle Stephenson turned the camera on themselves and began filming their five-year-old son, Idris, and his best

2013

Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani

Filmed in Canada, Iran, and the United States, Secrets of the Surface: The Mathematical Vision of Maryam Mirzakhani examines the life and mathematical

2020

First Graders

A documentary film about a boys school in Iran. The film shows numerous, funny and moving interviews of many different young pupils of this school sum

1996

The Mathematician

The salutary tale of a genius mathematician who discovers that mankind is heading for environmental disaster. Ignored by all, he sets out to prove it

1976

Outside In

The computer animation Outside In explains the amazing discovery, made by Steve Smale in 1957, that a sphere can be turned inside out by means of smoo

1995

A Touch of Greatness

In an era when Dick, Jane, and discipline ruled America's schools, Albert Cullum allowed Shakespeare, Sophocles, and Shaw to reign in his fifth grade

2005

Aliko and Ambai

Aliko & Ambai is a feature film about two young women facing the challenges of growing up in the beautiful Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. The

2017

Death (& Rebirth) Of A PhD

This Cheeky Scientist Documentary chronicles origins of Cheeky Scientist and includes in depth interviews with PhDs from different backgrounds who ove