High School II

Name: High School II
Released: 1994
Rating: 75
Cast: Frederick Wiseman

1994

Documentary

3h 40m

A film about Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a successful alternative high school in New York's Spanish Harlem, 85-95% of whose graduates go on to four-year colleges.

High School II

1994

Documentary

3h 40m

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JPFerguson

Rated 09 May 2020

This is a sequel of sorts to 'High School' with the intervening years and difference of location (for this film New York but for its predecessor Philadelphia) making for a stark contrast of not only pedagogy (focus here is 'habit of mind') but also culture and society more broadly. Everything that occurs in this film is framed by the Rodney King 'incident'. This is what an educational institution looks like that (rightly) tries to support students to be politically active citizens.

Rated 09 May 2020

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