Product Details

• Directors: Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond
• Writers: Susan Raymond
• Producers: Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: HBO
• DVD Release Date: July 8, 2008
• Run Time: 113 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001AY6QJY
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #45,129 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome: A must see for every educator, June 30, 2008

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Willie Muhammad "Truthspreader" (New Orleans, La.) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card (DVD)

I saw this one day while flipping thru the channels. After watching it I felt as if someone had followed me personally around with a camera at the schools where I worked. I live in New Orleans, but the issues in the school featured in this doc are the EXACT one I and other teachers faced. This is an awesome doc

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Precise Representation of my experience teaching in New York City, April 4, 2009

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Lindsay Beck "Former NYC Teacher" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card (DVD)

I put this on with some hesitation that it might portray troubled public schools in an inaccurate light. It didn't. It was scarily accurate. From 2004-2008, I worked as a special education teacher for a program like Teach for America in Queens. This film conveys exactly what the experience was like for me. It doesn't paint an unrealistically happy picture, nor suggest any solutions to the problems plaguing America's "failing" schools. It just tells it like it is. I highly recommend.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Future Teacher Training Tool, December 16, 2008

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This review is from: Hard Times at Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card (DVD)

I am an assist. Professor at a community college that teaches two introductory education courses. I used this video as a capstone assignment for the first time this semester - at the end of the second course. There is a triangulation between NCLB, administration and the student/teachers that takes place in this story. The students had to watch and review it followed by a writing assignment that covered specific open-ended topics. On their own, they conducted a class discussion that brought out what they had learned in the second multicultural ed. course. I had excellent results and was very pleased with the critical thinking and problem solving skills that they displayed. I encourage other teacher educators to use this in their classroom to assess student progress. Be sure that you warn students of the language ahead of time, in the event that there are students that are offended by profanity. They will still want to watch it, but are not taken off guard by the language. This gives future teachers a real life experience situation from which they can start formulating their own ideas and viewpoints.