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Our Kids: Narrowing the Opportunity Gap - Season 1

Series: Our Kids: Narrowing the Opportunity Gap
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Episodes
3
Rating
NRC
Year
2020
Language
English
Publisher
Dreamscape Media

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Underserved children need extra services to be competitive with children who are financially and emotionally secure. Children who live in fractured homes are extremely disadvantaged when it comes to achieving what others around them do. In this segment, we take a look at communities in Duluth, Minnesota; Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Missouri; and Nashville, Tennessee where grade schools are offering wrap-around services to their students including free food, family meals, clothing, laundry, and medical services.

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Episodes

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1. Our Kids: Narrowing the Opportunity Gap - Volume 2: Four Cities Tackle The Child Equity Gap

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Underserved children need extra services to be competitive with children who are financially and emotionally secure. Children who live in fractured homes are extremely disadvantaged when it comes to achieving what others around them do. In this segment, we take a look at communities in Duluth, Minnesota; Boston, Massachusetts; Springfield, Missouri; and Nashville, Tennessee where grade schools are offering wrap-around services to their students including free food, family meals, clothing, laundry, and medical services.

2. Our Kids: Narrowing the Opportunity Gap - Volume 3: "I'm Special" Detroit's Educational Crisis

56m

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Highlighting the deteriorating classroom conditions and the worst test scores in the nation, this alarming segment of Our Kids casts its eye on the current educational crisis in Detroit, Michigan. This cautionary tale discusses how both public and unregulated charter schools suffer from high teacher turnover, a shortage of up-to-date textbooks, a lack of funding, and financial accountability. We visit with students, teachers, parents, and educational leaders to discuss their innovative attempts to improve conditions.

3. Our Kids: Narrowing the Opportunity Gap - Volume 4: A Breath Of Hope

56m

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Giving hope to the hopeless dominates the stories in Seattle, Washington and Columbus, Ohio. Among those spotlighted in this video is a program to reform the foster care system and an organization that reunites children with parents who were incarcerated. Too many poor youths end up in the juvenile justice system, and The Echo Glen facility hopes to heal, rather than punish, young incarcerated teens.

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Artists

Harry Wilanddirector
Beverly Baroffproducer
Robert Putnamactor