Thanks for sharing your thoughts Deronn. We hope to ignite a national conversation on how to transform education and value childhood. There is a great deal of fear driving parents,educators and policy makers to create a narrow definition of success…
Hello Ms. Vicki.. My question is who created this culture..Parents and the powers that be.. How do we change this?? What do we do about children that may not have that academic gift.. But are highly gifted in other areas.
I have three children that…
thank you Vicki...this is amazing work and I am looking forward to seeing this. i love the comment about being pressured to learn surface level material....
can you provide a link for the people producing this?....did i miss it in the trailer?
"We need to look at kids as individuals"
"Race to nowhere"
Excellent video....
At 1:17pm on September 29, 2009, Mark Phillips said…
Hi Vicki.
I saw the film at the Rafael. We met breifly. Working on a column on adolescent stress for the Marin IJ and would like to feature the film. Can we talk or e-mail?
Welcome aboard! Conversation has been a little lackluster lately, but i'm hopeful the new school year will change that...i'm going to watch the video now.