urban schools

An entertainer impersonates a nun for the second time in order to help run a troubled inner-city school.

Contains two feature films that includes "Stand and Deliver," in which a Los Angeles barrio helps a classroom of failing students excel at mathematics; and also "Lean on Me," where one man changes the fate of a failing inner city high school with tough love.

A forty-four-year old teacher goes back to school. There she attempts to earn the trust of a second grade juvenile delinquent.

A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice.

Explores the differences between schools for the rich and public schools for the poor and argues for a reform of the public education system so that poor children have the educational opportunities that the rich do.

Provides a portrait of a master teacher in Manhattan describing her dedication to her students and recreates daily life at the school.