A National Disgrace Revisited / Big Media.

Journalist Dan Rather uncovers the poor state of Detroit Public Schools in Michigan. Investigating the mismanagement, deficit, and high turnover rates of superintendents via interviews with the school board, former superintendent Dr. Connie Calloway, and Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb, Rath...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Films on Demand.
Dan Rather reports on education in America.
Corporate Authors: Big Media
Infobase (Film distributor)
Other Authors: Rather, Dan
Language:English
Language of the Original:
English
Language and/or Writing System:
Closed-captioned.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : Big Media, [2011]
Series:Films on Demand.
Dan Rather reports on education in America.
Subjects:
Education > United States.
Internet videos.
Genre:
Internet videos.
Online Access:
Connect to online resource - MSU authorized users (Films On Demand @ Infobase)
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (1 hr., 51 min., 16 sec.)) : sound, color.
Format: Electronic Video
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Summary:
Journalist Dan Rather uncovers the poor state of Detroit Public Schools in Michigan. Investigating the mismanagement, deficit, and high turnover rates of superintendents via interviews with the school board, former superintendent Dr. Connie Calloway, and Emergency Financial Manager Robert Bobb, Rather discovers the situation is bleak in Detroit for the city's children. Over the course of eighteen months, Rather finds the failure of DPS to be a top-down educational system failure, with the student board's denial and dishonesty facilitating the decline. From savage battles between board members and employees to outraged community members to frustrated students, the entire public school system in Detroit is in crisis.
Note:Originally released by Big Media, 2011.
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 02, 2016.
Interest Grade Level:
9 & up.
System Details:Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Source of Description:
Title from distributor's description (Infobase, June 2, 2016)