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Episode Detail: Celebrating Teachers - Merrow Report

Profiles of successful teachers. Included: Edward James Olmos, Jesse Jackson and Phylicia Rashad recall their school days. Also: interviews with former teachers of Presidents Bill Clinton and George H.W. Bush.

Episodes: Celebrating Teachers - Merrow Report - 38 total Episodes

10/9/2007: Discounted Dreams: High Hopes and Harsh Realities at America's Community Colleges
6/5/2007: Making the Grade: Frustrations and Accomplishments
6/5/2007: Making the Grade: Learning the Ropes
6/5/2007: Making the Grade: First Day of School
6/7/2006: Getting Into College: The Inside Story
9/5/2005: Preventing Dropouts
5/3/2005: Preventing Dropouts
5/3/2005: Preventing Dropouts
11/2/2000: School Sleuth: The Case of the Excellent School
9/15/2000: The Toughest Job in America
11/20/1999: A Tale of Three Cities
9/11/1999: The Teacher Shortage: False Alarm?
Growing Up in the City
Lost in Translation: Latinos, Schools and Society
Growing Up in the City: Discovering Race
Searching for Heroes
Growing Up in the City: Family Portraits
In Schools We Trust
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Starting Over
Caught in the Crossfire
The Fifty Million Dollar Gamble
Saving the Arts
School Crusade: The Reality
Education's Big Gamble: Charter Schools
Teaching: The First Year
Early Learning
Elementary Confusion
Caught in the Crossfire
Promises, Promises
Merrow Report
It's Your Money
Merrow Report
Attention Deficit Disorder: A Dubious Diagnosis?
What's So Special About Special Education?
School Crusade: The Dream
Testing...Testing...Testing
Celebrating Teachers
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Premiered: October 28, 1993, on PBS
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Premise: A survey of American social issues from Peabody-winning journalist John Merrow. Topics included a look at violence in a Brooklyn neighborhood; the role of educators in shaping the value systems of adolescents; methods to educate children with physical, mental or learning disabilities; and efforts to save public-school arts education, with comments from singer-songwriter Billy Joel, actor Danny Glover and pianist Andre Watts.

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