BS in Education: Videos

Films on Demand (59 min)
Part one of series. "School: The Story of American Public Education." This program profiles the passionate crusade launched by Thomas Jefferson and continued by Noah Webster, Horace Mann, and others to create a common system of tax-supported schools that would mix people of different backgrounds and reinforce the bonds of democracy.

Films on Demand (58 min)
Part two of series, "School: The Story of American Public Education." This program recalls how massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education. Also explored are the impact of John Dewey’s progressive ideas as well as the effects on students of controversial IQ tests, the "life adjustment" curriculum, and Cold War politics.

Filsm on Demand (55 min)
Part three of series, "School: The Story of American Public Education." This program shows how impressive gains masked profound inequalities: 17 states had segregated schools; one percent of all Ph.D.s went to women; and "separate but equal" was still the law of the land.

Films on Demand (55 min)
Part Four of series "School: The Story of American Public Education." This program explores the impact of the "free market" experiments that ensued, from vouchers and charter schools to privatization—all with the goal of meeting tough new academic standards.

Films on Demand (1 hr 19 min)
This video chronicles the stories of four teachers who live and work in disparate urban and rural areas of the country. The film shows us the experiences of these four young teachers as they recognize the importance of what they do, and how much they love what they do, but ask: can I afford to continue to teach?

Films o Demand (50:21 min)
Reporter Dan Rather investigates the state of the American school system in 2011, drawing upon the opinions of experts The No Child Left Behind Act and the Race to the Top initiative are closely examined.

Films on Demand (26:46 min)
Education historian Diane Ravitch says the privatization of public education has to stop. As assistant secretary of education under President George H.W. Bush, she was an advocate of school choice and charter schools; under George W. Bush, she supported the No Child Left Behind initiative. But after careful investigation, she changed her mind.

Films on Demand (25:15 min)
In this video, learn about standardized testing methods mandated in public schools across the nation and the opposition against them.

Alexander Street Videos (37 min)
This program explores instructional design, educational technology, curriculum development, organizational learning, special education, and classroom management. It outlines the cognitive, academic, social, and moral goals of learning; presents behavioral, cognitive, functionalist, and constructivist theories of learning; and looks at qualitative and quantitative methods of pedagogical analysis.