Students Speak: America's Education Dilemma

A look at how Tony Wagner's book, The Global Achievement Gap, applies to high schools today. This video includes interviews from college freshmen reflecting on their high school experiences.

PLEASE NOTE: I do not own Tony Wagner's The Global Achievement Gap and no copyright infringement is intended in any way. Author Tony Wagner has not endorsed this video in any way. This video contains segments of two songs by Agnes Obel, entitled "Wallflower" and "Brother Sparrow." This music belongs to Agnes Obel.

No specific high schools are mentioned in this documentary due to privacy concerns.

Category:

Education

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• Global
• Achievement
• Gap
• education
• high
• school
• administrators
• teachers
• system
• testing
• Tony
• Wagner
• college

[jahart7292]

@thisismysweetside2 (cont'd from below) because of course it is difficult to get a representative view from such a small group. Even so, the interviews we did receive really correlated with a lot of the themes in the book we read, so it would be interesting to expand the pool of students interviewed to gain more insights! I would love to expand this project to include some of the elements you suggested.

[jahart7292]

@thisismysweetside2 Thank you very much for your comments! I am glad you enjoyed the documentary, and I really appreciate the feedback. Time definitely was an issue; we didn't realize that YouTube videos have to be less than 15 minutes, so we had to cut 6 minutes from our video in order to post it. (That is also why some of the editing is so choppy, since it was very last-minute.) I will take the sentence speed into consideration--good to know! I also would have loved to have more student voices

[thisismysweetside2]

Dear Julia, I enjoyed the documentary. Some of the white sentences on black background flashed on the screen too quickly. I would have liked to have heard more variety of students. I'm sure that time was of the essence, though; you probably had a limit on how long it could be. I liked how candid the students were- it was an honest interview process. This project is important because not many students take much initiative during High School OR college; it's almost as though it doesn't occur to

[jahart7292]

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