Education
Andrew Cohn’s documentary Night School tells a largely positive story about American poverty, but depends too much on its captivating subjects.
We had a chance to talk with Emily Keating, the Director of Education for Created Equal, a civil rights and film program for kids in Brooklyn.
Not all the jokes in Fist Fight land, but the film still works surprisingly well as a satirical exploration of the American education system.
Jacob Burns Film Center’s Creative Culture Program: An Experiment In Filmmaking & Interconnectedness
Creative Culture is the Jacob Burns Film Center’s (NY) educational program. We watched the fellows’ films and interviewed the program director.
When the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ranked global education systems in 2015, South Korea came in third. Its strict, demanding schools feed off the country’s zeal for education, with many people believing that your performance in school will determine your lifelong socioeconomic status. Given the country’s recent history, this assumption is far from unfounded.