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3) Cooties
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A horror comedy with unexpected laughs and unapologetic thrills. When a cafeteria food virus turns elementary school children into little killer savages, a group of misfit teachers must band together to escape the playground carnage.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys' friendship, Dash learns of the administration's cover-up that puts all the students in danger.
5) Bulletproof
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
The documentary explores the complexities of violence in schools by looking at the strategies employed to prevent it. The film observes the longstanding rituals that take place in and around American schools: homecoming parades, basketball practice, morning announcements, and math class. Unfolding alongside these scenes are a collection of newer traditions: lockdown drills, teacher firearms training, metal detector screenings, and school safety trade...
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A drama of forced high school integration in Alexandria, Virginia in 1971. After leading his team to fifteen winning seasons, white football coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by African-American Herman Boone, tough, opinionated and as different from Yoast as could be. The two men overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions. A rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust...
8) Wildcats
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A physical education teacher gets a chance to coach an inner-city high school football team.
10) Desert son
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
High school student Phillip finds himself cruelly cast into a game of life or death. Left for days without food or water, he eventually collapses and gives up hope, until a beautiful orphan girl named Lucy comes to his rescue. Lucy welcomes Phillip into her makeshift home in a decaying ghost town where she lives with her boyfriend Jack. Far from society, the three runaways patrol the desert on bike and live as petty thieves.
11) Ocean waves
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
As a young man returns home after his first year away at college, he recalls his senior year of high school and the iron-willed big-city girl that turned his world upside down.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Formats
Description
For the first time in the cinematic history of Spider-Man, our friendly neighborhood hero's identity is revealed, bringing his Super Hero responsibilities into conflict with his normal life and putting those he cares about most at risk. When he enlists Doctor Strange's help to restore his secret, the spell tears a hole in their world, releasing the most powerful villains who have ever fought a Spider-Man in any universe. Now, Peter will have to overcome...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Readers in grades 3-6 present unique challenges and opportunities for teachers. Many intermediate readers can decode text well, but few have the skills required for the thick textbooks and complex literature they will encounter in the middle grades and beyond. Teachers need to guide students as they develop sophisticated strategies for tackling a variety of new text, while helping students cultivate the independence and self-reflection they need for...
14) Election
Series
Criterion collection volume 904
Language
English
Formats
Description
Reese Witherspoon plays Tracy Flick, a straight-A go-getter determined to be president of Carver High’s student body. Popular teacher Jim McAllister (Matthew Broderick) decides to derail Tracy’s obsessive overachieving by recruiting an opposition candidate. Nominated for Best Screenplay at the **Academy Awards.** Nominated for Best Actress at the **Golden Globes.** Winner of Best Film, Best Director and Best Screenplay at the **Film Independent...
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The goal of teaching is to promote independent learning so reading and writing becomes a lifelong habit. As children become better readers, they also become better writers. A workshop format provides a literacy context for building connections between the reading and writing processes. About the author: Carla Soffos is a literacy specialist with the Arkansas Department of Education. She has twenty-one years of experience in education, including teaching...
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Dash and his best friend Assaf are preparing for another year at Tides High School muckraking on behalf of their widely distributed but little-read school newspaper, edited by their friend Verti. But just when a blossoming relationship between Assaf and Verti threatens to destroy the boys2 friendship, Dash learns of the administration2s cover-up that puts all the students in danger.
Pub. Date
2003, c1985
Language
English
Description
Over the course of a Saturday in detention, five seemingly different high school students--the jock, the brain, the princess, the criminal, and the kook--break through the stereotypes that make them hostile toward, afraid of, or invisible to each other on normal school days.
20) Fame
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of the joys and disappointments of eight talented teenagers at a high school for the performing arts in New York City. Dance sequences include an audition, classes, a ballet solo by Antonia Franceschi, and the ensemble numbers "Fame" and "I sing the body electric".
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