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"Closing the Performance Gap: the Gering Story"
The story of how one school district in Gering, Nebraska raised reading scores across the board. |
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"Focus
on Math"
A 20 minute video reporting on an innovative Massachusetts based math program, "Focus on Math," developed by Educational Development Center Inc. in partnership with Boston University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, Worcester Polytechnic, Lesley University and the Arlington, Chelsea, Lawrence, Waltham and Watertown School Districts. |
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"Radical
Interventions"
A 15 minute video reporting on the efforts of one California Middle School to enable its failing students to catch up before entering high school. The intervention model involves up to three periods of language arts and two periods of math each day. |
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"Reading
Mastery 1 Training Tapes"
A series of 12 videos and DVDs to
help train teachers to use Direct Instruction's Reading
Mastery Program, a research-based curriculum that has
proved highly effective in teaching at-risk inner city
children to read. Using five master teachers as guides
and authentic classroom performance to illustrate good
techniques, this series enables novice teachers to become
highly effective reading teachers.
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"Thriving
on Excellence"
A video dealing with the challenge
of achieving excellence not just in isolated schools but
across an entire district. By focusing on three school
districts located in poor, at-risk areas, this video outlines
the steps that ensure success. |
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"Coaching
for Success"
A now discredited reading curriculum
called "Whole Language" has left thousands of middle and
high school students unable to read. This video helps
train reading coaches to correct this urgent problem by
helping middle school teachers teach reading. |
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PBS
Special
"The
Battle of City Springs"
A
90 minute special which follows the fortunes of City
Springs, a failing inner-city elementary school in Baltimore.
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"Great
Expectations"
A 20 minute video featuring a series
of successful inner-city schools which have managed to
achieve superior results despite poverty and disadvantage.
The schools use a radical curriculum called Direct Instruction. |
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"Goethe:
The Middle School That Could"
A
20 minute video documenting an educational initiative
in a seriously troubled Sacramento middle school.
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PBS/FRONTLINE
"Prisoners
of Silence"
Exposé of Facilitated Communication,
a technique which alleged many non verbal and mentally
retarded autistic individuals could read and write and
simply needed "facilitating".
Winner
AAAS/Westinghouse
Science Journalism Award
for Best Television
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