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Author
Series
Virgil Flowers novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then someone winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate...and he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among...
2) The Testing
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Two LGBTQ alumni follow a handful of LGBTQ and SAME-SEX ATTRACTED students at LDS-owned Brigham Young University as rumors of a potential relationship between the administration and the school's unofficial student GSA spread around campus.
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Each year 3 million high school students in the U.S. take an SAT or ACT college entrance exam. For decades there have been questions about what exactly these tests measure and how predictive they are of academic promise or success.
5) John Woman
Author
Language
English
Description
At twelve years old, Cornelius, the son of an Italian-American woman and an older black man from Mississippi named Herman, secretly takes over his father's job at a silent film theater in New York's East Village. Five years later, as Herman lives out his last days, he shares his wisdom with his son, explaining that the person who controls the narrative of history controls their own fate. After his father dies and his mother disappears, Cornelius sets...
6) Some Freaks
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A charming romance develops between a boy with one eye and an overweight girl, though when she loses her weight after going to college, their relationship is tested in devastating ways they never dreamed would happen. *"What seems like an ordinary teenage comedy about cliques and bullying on the surface is actually a modestly perceptive and touching glimpse into the ways in which we transition from adolescence into adulthood." - Todd Jorgenson, **Cinemalogue***...
Publisher
Video Project
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
As the number of students on the autism spectrum attending college steadily climbs, schools and students alike are trying to figure out how to manage the unique challenges experienced by this community. Getting accepted is often easy enough, but once on campus, navigating college can be challenging in many ways, often leaving students to figure it out as they go along. Five students on the autism spectrum — Guillermo, Jasmine, Caroline, Jonathan,...
9) Happy Valley
Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Amir Bar-Lev’s documentary HAPPY VALLEY takes an unflinching look at an iconic American institution in the wake of unthinkable scandal. Nestled in the idyllic area known as Happy Valley lies the town of State College and the home of Penn State University. For over 40 years, Joe Paterno was the celebrated head coach of the school's storied football team. Lauded not only for his program's success on the field, but also for students’ achievements...
10) Fail State
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures*
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Executive produced by news legend Dan Rather, FAIL STATE investigates the dark side of American higher education, chronicling the decades of policy decisions in Washington, D.C. that have given rise to a powerful and highly-predatory for-profit college industry. With echoes of the sub-prime mortgage crisis, the film lays bare how for-profit colleges exploit millions of low-income and minority students, leaving them with worthless degrees and drowning...
12) Beyond the Dream
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Two aspiring teachers create a college readiness program to help students in El Paso, TX achieve their college dreams.
Publisher
Nomadic Pictures
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by New York Times bestseller "The Other Wes Moore", Academy Award-nominated and Emmy-winning producer/director Tod Lending presents ALL THE DIFFERENCE, an acclaimed film about African-American manhood. Filmed over five and a half years, ALL THE DIFFERENCE weaves together the stories of two tough, yet promising young black men as they navigate broken homes and low-income, high-risk communities in Chicago. Although statistics predict they will...
16) Allendes Enkel
Publisher
Filmakademie Baden-Wurttemberg
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
Español
Description
For years pupils and students have been protesting in Chile against the privatization of the educational system. Thousands demonstrated for their right to free education. By 2012 the protests began to decrease. Today only one school in Santiago is still occupied. The violent raiding of the school by the police could happen at any time, so who are these pupils and what are they demanding?
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume no. 8
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her substitute teacher realizes she is struggling in math, Judy is sent to a math tutor at the local college and soon is completely into the spirit of college life.
18) Spiral Bound
Publisher
Bayview Entertainment
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A documentary about the unlikely union of eight creative high school students from a youth development program and a group of liberal arts college students over the course of one summer. Together, these education activists are seeking social justice not only in the public school system but also in the higher education arena. On this journey, both groups learn the power of the arts in giving a voice to those who need it the most, including themselves....
19) The Competition
Publisher
Metrograph
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
Français
Description
La Fémis is one of the most prestigious film schools in the world, offering hands-on training from working professionals and accepting only forty students per year from hundreds of applicants. This Wiseman-esque documentary observes the process whereby those lucky forty are selected—a process which is revealed to be highly personal, idiosyncratic, and subject to the vagaries of taste and personal prejudice. THE COMPETITION offers not only a unique...
20) Pitch perfect 3
Language
English
Description
Following their win at the world championship, the now separated Bellas reunite for one last singing competition at an overseas USO tour, but face a group who uses both instruments and voices.
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