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DESCRIPTION:Join the Multicultural Team in the Commons Room to watch Precio
 us Knowledge - full documentary showing followed by facilitated discussion
 .Precious Knowledge interweaves the stories of students in the Mexican Ame
 rican Studies Program at Tucson High School. While 48 percent of Mexican A
 merican students currently drop out of high school\, Tucson High’s Mexican
  American Studies Program has become a national model of educational succe
 ss\, with 100 percent of enrolled students graduating from high school and
  85 percent going on to attend college. The filmmakers spent an entire yea
 r in the classroom filming this innovative social-justice curriculum\, doc
 umenting the transformative impact on students who become engaged\, inform
 ed\, and active in their communities.As the nation turns its focus toward 
 a wave of anti-immigration legislation in Arizona\, the issue of ethnic ch
 auvinism has become a double-edged weapon in a simmering battle. Arizona l
 awmakers recently passed a bill giving unilateral power to the State Super
 intendent to abolish ethnic studies classes.Precious Knowledge provides an
  insider’s perspective student leaders fight to save their classes. The st
 udents are able to mobilize rapidly with texts\, Facebook\, optimism\, and
  a megaphone.Lawmakers and politicians mount a public relations campaign t
 o discredit the passionate students\, claiming that Paulo Freire’s textboo
 k The Pedagogy of the Oppressed teaches victimization and sedition. Offici
 als ask that the classroom's Che Guevara posters be replaced with portrait
 s of founding father Benjamin Franklin. Meanwhile\, the students answer ba
 ck by fighting for what they believe is the future of public education for
  the entire nation\, especially as the Latino demographic continues to gro
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LOCATION:Room 4/5   (4907 Garrett Rd\, Durham\, NC 27707   )
SUMMARY:Multicultural Team film and discussion
URL:https://eruuf.org/calendar/calendar-view/event/3047-multicultural-team-
 film-and-discussion.html
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