Check out this clip for the new HBO documentary “Hard Times At Douglass High: A No Child Left Behind Report Card”, which is set to premiere on Monday, June 23rd. The documentary follows students and teachers at Baltimore’s Frederick Douglass High School, once full of successful alumni including Supreme Court justice Thurgood Marshall. The film raises awareness to the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act, focusing on the brutal inequalities of American minority education:
“Douglass principal Isabelle Grant oversees a staff of teachers that is two-thirds non-certified, while many are substitutes unqualified to teach their subject areas. Threatened with sanctions, or even closing, unless student scores improve in annual standardized tests, the faculty tries to find workable solutions to chronic problems of attendance, lateness and apathy among students, many of whom come from poor backgrounds and broken homes, and lack the most basic reading and math skills.
Check out clips of the film HERE and be sure to catch it on HBO when it premieres Monday…
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