I came across this announcement and thought I would share it with local mamas. The Clover Hill Waldorf School in Norwalk will screen "Race to Nowhere" on May 7. After the movie, a panel of faculty from local public and Waldorf schools, as well as experts in child health, will answer questions from the audience. It's a great opportunity to see this amazing film and ask questions of people on "the front lines"! Here is the announcement:Version:1.0 StartHTML:0000000105 EndHTML:0000006405 Start
The Clover Hill Waldorf School is screening the groundbreaking documentary film "Race to Nowhere" on America's education system and its effect on childhood emotional health (see synopsis below). A panel discussion featuring guest speakers specializing in education and child health will be available after the film for discussion and to answer parents' questions:
Mrs. Rebecca Pavia, a Norwalk Public High School math teacher
Mr. Anthony Pavia, a Darien Public Middle School counselor
Mrs. Anastacia Pryanikova M.A., J.D., Certified Coach, Conflict Management Specialist
Dr. Capanna-Hodge, an Educational Psychologist and Consultant and Neurofeedback Practitioner who has more than a fifteen years of working with children and families
Please join us in seeing this important film. Go to the link below to learn more about "Race to Nowhere" and to purchase tickets.
http://rtncloverhillct.eventbrite.com/
FILM SYNOPSIS:
A concerned mother turned filmmaker aims her camera at the culture of hollow achievement and pressure to perform that has invaded AmericaĘĽs schools. It is destroying our childrenĘĽs love of learning and feeding an epidemic of unprepared, disengaged, and unhealthy students.
This remarkable new film shines a light on the price our kids pay for this "race to nowhere." Cheating is commonplace, stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant, and ironically, young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired.
Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people who have been pushed to the brink and educators who are burned out and worried that students arenĘĽt developing the skills needed for the global economy, RACE TO NOWHERE points to the silent epidemic running rampant in our schools.
RACE TO NOWHERE is a call to families, educators, experts and policy makers to examine current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become the healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens in the 21st century. Among many others, RACE TO NOWHERE features Dr. Madeline Levine, author of the best-
seller, The Price of Privilege; Dr. Deborah Stipek, Dean of the Stanford School of Education; Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, an adolescent medicine specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Dr. Wendy Mogel, author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee; Denise Pope, author of Doing School; and Sara Bennett, author of The Case Against Homework.
"The Race to Nowhere is another inconvenient truth. It's a wake-up call to all of us who care about children, the purpose of schools, and how we define success in American education. And, importantly, it provides viewers with excellent, actionable suggestions of how to begin to address change locally in our schools."
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
"An education film that gets it (No, not 'Superman'). Chronicles the price kids are paying emotionally for the increased emphasis on test scores."
- Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
"I promise you that this movie is telling the truth … Race to Nowhere conveys important messages with power."
- John Merrow, correspondent for PBS Newshour, writing for The Huffington Post
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The Clover Hill Waldorf School is screening the groundbreaking documentary film "Race to Nowhere" on America's education system and its effect on childhood emotional health (see synopsis below). A panel discussion featuring guest speakers specializing in education and child health will be available after the film for discussion and to answer parents' questions:
Mrs. Rebecca Pavia, a Norwalk Public High School math teacher
Mr. Anthony Pavia, a Darien Public Middle School counselor
Mrs. Anastacia Pryanikova M.A., J.D., Certified Coach, Conflict Management Specialist
Dr. Capanna-Hodge, an Educational Psychologist and Consultant and Neurofeedback Practitioner who has more than a fifteen years of working with children and families
Please join us in seeing this important film. Go to the link below to learn more about "Race to Nowhere" and to purchase tickets.
http://rtncloverhillct.eventbrite.com/
FILM SYNOPSIS:
A concerned mother turned filmmaker aims her camera at the culture of hollow achievement and pressure to perform that has invaded AmericaĘĽs schools. It is destroying our childrenĘĽs love of learning and feeding an epidemic of unprepared, disengaged, and unhealthy students.
This remarkable new film shines a light on the price our kids pay for this "race to nowhere." Cheating is commonplace, stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant, and ironically, young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired.
Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people who have been pushed to the brink and educators who are burned out and worried that students arenĘĽt developing the skills needed for the global economy, RACE TO NOWHERE points to the silent epidemic running rampant in our schools.
RACE TO NOWHERE is a call to families, educators, experts and policy makers to examine current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become the healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens in the 21st century. Among many others, RACE TO NOWHERE features Dr. Madeline Levine, author of the best-
seller, The Price of Privilege; Dr. Deborah Stipek, Dean of the Stanford School of Education; Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, an adolescent medicine specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia; Dr. Wendy Mogel, author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee; Denise Pope, author of Doing School; and Sara Bennett, author of The Case Against Homework.
"The Race to Nowhere is another inconvenient truth. It's a wake-up call to all of us who care about children, the purpose of schools, and how we define success in American education. And, importantly, it provides viewers with excellent, actionable suggestions of how to begin to address change locally in our schools."
- The George Lucas Educational Foundation
"An education film that gets it (No, not 'Superman'). Chronicles the price kids are paying emotionally for the increased emphasis on test scores."
- Valerie Strauss, Washington Post
"I promise you that this movie is telling the truth … Race to Nowhere conveys important messages with power."
- John Merrow, correspondent for PBS Newshour, writing for The Huffington Post
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