After a teenage prank goes tragically wrong, four boyhood friends are sent to a brutalreform school, where they are abused by the sadistic guards. FILM OF THE DAY; Sleepers (Sky Movies 1, 10pm) UNIONS were today signing a deal aimed at cutting teachers' hours as part of a pounds 1 ...
When Herisse auditioned for a lead role inNickel Boys, he had never heard of Whitehead’s novel or the Florida reform school it was based on. He says he was disappointed to be “learning about it in the context that I was—which was for a project for...
‘Nickel Boys’ Review: RaMell Ross Breaks Free of Reform-School Tropes, but Loses the Plot in the Process From “Boy A” (the movie that launched Andrew Garfield’s career) to “Zero for Conduct,” movies set in broken boarding schools and juvenile reformatory centers are a dime a dozen...
my students did wonderful things. They made faux commercials that aired on our school’s morning news; they recorded themselves explaining math problems; they produced movies about explorers, complete with soundtracks. I recorded mini-lessons for my students to watch ...
The War Against Boys, by Christina Hoff Sommers (Atlantic Monthly, May 2000). "This we think we know: American schools favor boys and grind down girls. The truth is the very opposite. By virtually every measure, girls are thriving in school; it is boys who are the second sex." In fou...
those movies did sound eerily similar to what he was hearing now. He imagined himself as an MP speeding through the streets of war-torn Saigon as the North Vietnamese closed in on the city in the last days before the fall. The crack and boom ...
Of her upbringing, she says today that she wasn’t raised like a boy—“It was more the sense that I had the same potential as boys. I was treated as a girl, but with great potential.” Years later, she realized while listening to a group of women leaders in Africa—all of vastly...