School, the story of American public education
Subtitle: Episode 3 : A struggle for educational equality, 1950-1980
By: produced by Stone Lantern Films, Inc. ; directed by Sarah Mondale ; produced by Sarah Patton and Sarah Mondale ; writer, Sheila Curran Bernard
Contributors: Stone Lantern Films; Films for the Humanities (Firm); Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.)
Series: TED 611 (NU course); TED 615 (NU course)
Publisher: Films for the Humanities and Sciences
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 55
Subjects: Education; History; Public schools; Video recordings for the hearing impaired
Other titles: Story of American public education ;; Struggle for educational equality, 1950-1980; Struggle for educational equality, 1950-1980; School, the story of American public education (Television program)
Description: Describes how in the 1950's, America's public schools teemed with the promise of a new, postwar generation of students, over half of whom would go on to college. This program shows how impressive gains masked profound inequalities: seventeen states had segregated schools; 1% of all Ph. D.'s went to women; and "separate but equal" was still the law of the land.
Notes: Also available as streaming video.

Originally broadcast in 2001 as School, the story of American public education, a PBS television program.

Editor, Marian Sears Hunter ; cinematography, Allen Moore, Tom Hurwitz, Roger T. Grange, III.

Narrator, Meryl Streep.

DVD.

Closed-captioned.