A number
of films touching on controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education syste
of films touching on
controversial subjects during the past year also made the cut including The Hunting Ground, about campus rape; 3 1/2 Minutes, 10 Bullets, about the shooting
of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education syste
of an unarmed black teenager by a white man in Florida; Going Clear: Scientology And The Prison
Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education syste
Of Belief, an in - depth look at the Church
of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's education syste
of Scientology; Winter On Fire: Ukraine's Fight For Freedom, which chronicles the unrest in the Eastern European country; and He Named Me Malala, about the young girl who survived being shot in the head by the Taliban for being outspoken about her country's
education system.
I didn't know that Horace Mann, as he worked to magnify the reach
of public
education, was intolerant
of introducing
controversial subjects in the classroom: «If the day ever arrives when the school room shall become a cauldron for the fermentation
of all the hot and virulent opinions, in politics and religion, that now agitate our community, that day the fate
of our glorious public school system will be sealed, and speedy ruin will overwhelm it.»
One
of the central features
of By All Means is a set
of convenings which serve two purposes: 1) to bring together teams from the six or seven cities in which we'll be establishing learning labs for our design work; 2) to bring together a national audience
of thought leaders to consider some
controversial subjects relating to the future
of public
education and that system's work with economically disadvantaged students.
Louise Bradshaw, director
of education at the St. Louis Zoo, who has given talks about navigating politically
controversial subjects, said several museums use a similar tack.