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Class
Dismissed |
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| Directed
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Paper
Tiger Television |
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USA,
2004 |
| Running
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28
minutes |
| Genre: |
Documentary |
| Language: |
English |
| Themes: |
Education |
| Distributor: |
Paper
Tiger Television |
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Synopsis:
Class
Dismissed explores how history is taught, what's missing and how students
can become active learners and agents for social change. The 28 minute
video looks at the textbook industry, standardized testing, the lack of
race and class analysis in textbooks and the teachers role in introducing
a range of perspectives into the classroom. Featuring authors Howard Zinn
(The People's History of the United States) and James Loewen (Lies My Teacher
Told Me), New York City public high school students, textbook industry
insiders and teachers. The video is broken up into easy to work with sections
on who's represented in US History textbooks and who's not, How and why
history is written (and by who), a look inside the history textbook industry
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