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A documentary filmmaker’s goal is to inform, inspire, and sometimes enrage. With the topic of education reform growing ever hotter in the collective conscious of American society, we’re seeing an abundance of documentaries focusing on this ...
Obama has proposed increased spending towards education despite cutting budgets almost everywhere else. Most notably, his administration is planning to overhaul the last administration’s infamous No Child Left Behind law. But with the new funds that Obama ...
Get Schooled: You Have the Right explores the lessons learned by three young professionals who now work for three of the most recognizable people in the world. They all have rewarding careers. They all ...
During last night’s State of the Union address, President Obama devoted nearly three minutes of his speech to pushing education reform. Amid the president’s proposed spending freeze announced earlier this week, many feared that education spending ...
There exist many reasons why so many American high school students choose to drop out or wind up flunking out. Some kids have difficult problems to deal with at home, and others might get involved with ...
When we first launched GetSchooled.com, we hosted a panel event along with New York Entrepreneur Week that featured speakers Marc Ecko, Kevin Powell, and Joel Human recounting their roads to success and offering inspiration ...
< For all young people, juggling the hardships of both life and school can be tough. Unfortunately, it’s often made tougher by the fact that most of them are going at it alone, with minimal support. ...
Davis Guggenheim, who directed the Oscar-winning 2006 global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth, returns in 2010 with Waiting For Superman, a documentary that tackles another hot topic bearing uncomfortable truths–public education in America. The film examines the ...
A few weeks ago, we looked at the findings from a recent Public Agenda study on the growing number of college dropouts in America. Just 25 percent of students attend the sort of residential college ...
Looks like President Obama was serious when he pledged last month to improve American students’ performance in math and science. “Make no mistake: Our future is on the line,” he said. “The nation that out-educates us ...