"Tested" Film Screening & Panel
Monday, April 18, 2016 - 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Iacocca Hall, Wood Dining Hall
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"Tested" looks at the lack of racial diversity at the top public high schools in New York City by following a dozen families from different racial, socio-economic and religious backgrounds as they prepare to pass the grueling entrance exam. Already, the film has been getting a great response from places like the White House Initiative on African American Education Excellence, the American Educational Research Association and the New York Times.
The gap in opportunities for different races in America remains extreme. Nowhere is this more evident than our nation’s top public schools. In New York City, where blacks and Hispanics make up 70% of the city’s school-aged population, they represent less than 5% at the city’s most elite public high schools. Meanwhile Asian Americans make up as much as 73%. This documentary follows a dozen racially and socio-economically diverse 8th graders as they fight for a seat at one of these schools. Their only way in: to ace a single standardized test. Tested includes the voices of such education experts as Pedro Noguera and Diane Ravitch as it explores such issues as access to a high-quality public education, affirmative action, and the model-minority myth.
Following the film screening, Jon Drescher, educational leadership professor of practice, will facilitate an interactive audience discussion with the film director Curtis Chin.
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Dr. Brook Sawyer
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610-758-3236