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New! Moyers & Company: Who's Widening America's Digital Divide?
Item# 53088
© 2013
31 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-568-0
America has a wide digital divide: high-speed Internet access is available only to those who can afford it, at prices much higher and speeds much slower in the U.S. than they are around the world. But...
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Unforgotten: 25 Years After Willowbrook
Item# 53106
© 2012
111 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-511-6
In 1972, a young TV reporter named Geraldo Rivera exposed the horrific abuse of mentally disabled children at the Willowbrook State School in Staten Island, New York. This program contains Rivera’s...
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Moyers & Company: Between Two Worlds—Life on the Border
Item# 49109
© 2012
57 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-018-3
No writer understands the border culture between Mexico and the United States more intimately than Luis Alberto Urrea. His own life is the stuff of great novels. Son of a Mexican father and Anglo mo...
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New to Our Collection! IQ: A History of Deceit
Item# 52818
© 2011
52 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-757-8
What we now call an IQ test was originally developed by Alfred Binet at the start of the 20th century as a way to measure developmental delays in schoolchildren. But with the eugenics craze at its p...
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New to Our Collection! Juvenile Process Overview: Through the System
Item# 52358
© 2011
51 Min.
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Caught breaking into cars at a local train station, two teenaged brothers are sent to Lake County Juvenile Complex in Crown Point, Indiana. Both believe they'll be out within a couple of days. But sin...
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No Look Pass: The Story of Basketball Star Emily Tay
Item# 52591
© 2011
87 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-61753-230-6
Balancing Hoop Dreams–style sports drama with a rich exploration of cultural and sexual identity, this film tells the story of Harvard point guard Emily Tay—specifically, her quest to play professiona...
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Indian School: Stories of Survival
Item# 50410
© 2011
40 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-839-4
Proposing to “kill the Indian and save the man,” U.S. Army captain Richard H. Pratt envisioned an educational system that would erase Native American culture and “civilize” the continent’s indigenous...
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Breaking the Wall of Inaccessible Knowledge: How Digitization Can Democratize Culture
Item# 49392
© 2011
21 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62290-453-2
Google Books, the project to digitize every book ever published, was shut down in 2011. A federal judge rejected the agreement proposed by Google to settle the class action brought against it by the A...
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What Poor Child Is This? Poverty and America's Children
Item# 48031
© 2011
86 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-664-8
If poverty is a serpent, child poverty is its venom. And with an estimated 12 million American children suffering from economic hardship, even the wealthiest society on Earth cannot escape the poisono...
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Google Tools for Education
Item# 47365
© 2011
31 Min.
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DVD (Chaptered) ISBN: 978-1-62102-220-6
Beginning with a concise overview of the benefits of cloud computing, this video introduces Google's integrated suite of Internet-based applications while explaining how these tools-powerful, universa...
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