"A growing grass-roots phenomenon" — Donna St. George, Washington Post
Reviews
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For a Debbie Meier admiring teacher who wanted to teach in a progressive open classroom environment but never could, I eat up this stuff.
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A cautionary tale for all of us with young children as our kids grow up in our fast paced, media saturated, money driven, over-scheduled world.
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Questions overscheduling of ADD generation.
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Something has to be done about the non-child-centered focus that is hurting so many children throughout this country.
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I saw a pre-release cut of this movie, and I strongly recommend it. Forget "Waiting for Superman"; go see this one.
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You’ll never look at school, or young people, the same way again.
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This film’s power lies in the stories of the kids and educators themselves.
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Perhaps one of the most important films created in recent memory, Race to Nowhere asks the tough questions and provides real solutions for the problems plaguing the education system in America.
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Collecting the testimony of those who have been through the stress machine and those who have observed it firsthand, the documentary is a dire warning and solid piece of advocacy journalism.
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The rare documentary that provides legitimate answers to the questions it raises.
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Brilliantly lays out a paradoxical scenario of whether we are inadvertently killing our students' love of learning, setting up an health-adverse protocol.
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This isn't just about upper middle class white kids. Latino and African American students talk about the stress they are experiencing.
