Race to Nowhere

Reviews


Washington Post Review: 'Race to Nowhere' film highlights stress students face in high-pressure academics "A growing grass-roots phenomenon" — Donna St. George, Washington Post
Education Notes Online Review: ON Superman, Race to Nowhere, and Other Stuff For a Debbie Meier admiring teacher who wanted to teach in a progressive open classroom environment but never could, I eat up this stuff.
RACE TO NOWHERE – a chilling documentary about our achievement driven culture 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.
News Blaze: Race to Nowhere Film Review Questions overscheduling of ADD generation.
Huffingtonpost.com - Go See the Other Education Documentary: The Race to Nowhere Something has to be done about the non-child-centered focus that is hurting so many children throughout this country.
Susan Ohanian.org: The Overscheduled Child I saw a pre-release cut of this movie, and I strongly recommend it. Forget "Waiting for Superman"; go see this one.
Tribecafilm.com You’ll never look at school, or young people, the same way again.
All In A Days. . . . This film’s power lies in the stories of the kids and educators themselves.
MovingPicturesMagazine.com: My Camera on the ‘Nowhere’ Classroom Takes us inside the lives of the students, parents and teachers struggling to cope with a system now dominated by standardized tests and unrelenting pressure to perform and compete.
Technorati.com: School Today is a Race To Nowhere
Examiner.com: The poignant new film every parent and student should see 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.
HuffingtonPost.com: No Child Left Behind' Means a Race to Nowhere
Los Angeles Times: Movie Reviews 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.
SlantMagazine.com: Race to Nowhere The rare documentary that provides legitimate answers to the questions it raises.
Variety.com: Race to Nowhere
Daily Riff Review: Must-Watch Documentary Clip Brilliantly lays out a paradoxical scenario of whether we are inadvertently killing our students' love of learning, setting up an health-adverse protocol.
Marin Journal: Adolescents race to nowhere This isn't just about upper middle class white kids. Latino and African American students talk about the stress they are experiencing.