Have You Seen "The Race to Nowhere"?
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
RACE TO NOWHERE
A concerned mother turned filmmaker aims her camera at the culture of hollow achievement and pressure to perform that has invaded Americas schools. It is destroying our childrens love of learning and feeding an epidemic of unprepared, disengaged, and unhealthy students.
This remarkable new film shines a light on the price our kids pay for this “race to nowhere.” Cheating is commonplace, stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant, and ironically, young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired.
Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people who have been pushed to the brink and educators who are burned out and worried that students arent developing the skills needed for the global economy, RACE TO NOWHERE points to the silent epidemic running rampant in our
schools. RACE TO NOWHERE is a call to families, educators, experts and policy makers to examine current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become the healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens in the 21st century.
Among many others, RACE TO NOWHERE features Dr. Madeline Levine, author of the best- seller, The Price of Privilege, Dr. Deborah Stipek, Dean of the Stanford School of Education, Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, an adolescent medicine specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Wendy Mogel, author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, Denise Pope, author of Doing School, and Sara Bennett, author of The Case Against Homework.
Below are local New York and Connecticut screenings. Please contact the venue because tickets are selling out fast.
Connecticut
City Venue Date
Avon Avon High School Jan 27, 2011
Darien Darien High School Jan 19, 2011
Darien Darien High School Jan 19, 2011
Darien Darien High School Jan 19, 2011
Fairfield Fairfield Country Day Jan 19, 2011
Greenwich Greenwich Library Jan 24, 2011
Greenwich Greenwich Library Cole Auditorium Feb 7, 2011
Hartford Watkinson School, Foisie Theater Jan 20, 2011
Norwalk Rowayton Library Jan 20, 2011
Norwalk Rowayton Library Jan 24, 2011
Norwalk Rowayton Library Jan 25, 2011
Redding Joel Barlow High School Feb 10, 2011
Stamford State Cinema Feb 3, 2011
Westport Westport Town Hall Jan 28, 2011
New York
City Venue Date
Bethpage Bethpage Library Feb 10, 2011
Bronxville Sarah Lawrence College, Heimbold Visual Arts Center Feb 28, 2011
Cross River John Jay High School Jan 31, 2011
Manhasset Manhasset High School, Auditorium Feb 8, 2011
New Rochelle Iona College, Murphy Auditorium Jan 25, 2011
New York The Center for Arts Education Feb 9, 2011
Nyack Nyack Library Jan 18, 2011
Pelham Pelham Jewish Center Jan 25, 2011
Plesantville Pleasantville High School Jan 26, 2011
Port Jefferson Station Comsewogue High School Jan 25, 2011
Poughkeepsie Spackenkill High School Jan 26, 2011
Rochester Nazareth College Feb 16, 2011
Rye Rye Presbyterian Nursery School Jan 27, 2011
Saint James Harbor Country Day School Jan 20, 2011
Utica JCC of Utica Auditorium Feb 13, 2011
West Nyack Felix Festa Middle School Feb 10, 2011
White Plains Auditorium at Ethical Culture Society Feb 10, 2011
White Plains Ethical Culture Society of Westchester Feb 10, 2011
Yonkers Saunders High School Feb 9, 2011
Yorktown Heights Yorktown High School Feb 9, 2011
A concerned mother turned filmmaker aims her camera at the culture of hollow achievement and pressure to perform that has invaded Americas schools. It is destroying our childrens love of learning and feeding an epidemic of unprepared, disengaged, and unhealthy students.
This remarkable new film shines a light on the price our kids pay for this “race to nowhere.” Cheating is commonplace, stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant, and ironically, young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired.
Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people who have been pushed to the brink and educators who are burned out and worried that students arent developing the skills needed for the global economy, RACE TO NOWHERE points to the silent epidemic running rampant in our
schools. RACE TO NOWHERE is a call to families, educators, experts and policy makers to examine current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become the healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens in the 21st century.
Among many others, RACE TO NOWHERE features Dr. Madeline Levine, author of the best- seller, The Price of Privilege, Dr. Deborah Stipek, Dean of the Stanford School of Education, Dr. Kenneth Ginsburg, an adolescent medicine specialist at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Dr. Wendy Mogel, author of The Blessing of a Skinned Knee, Denise Pope, author of Doing School, and Sara Bennett, author of The Case Against Homework.
Below are local New York and Connecticut screenings. Please contact the venue because tickets are selling out fast.
Connecticut
City Venue Date
Avon Avon High School Jan 27, 2011
Darien Darien High School Jan 19, 2011
Darien Darien High School Jan 19, 2011
Darien Darien High School Jan 19, 2011
Fairfield Fairfield Country Day Jan 19, 2011
Greenwich Greenwich Library Jan 24, 2011
Greenwich Greenwich Library Cole Auditorium Feb 7, 2011
Hartford Watkinson School, Foisie Theater Jan 20, 2011
Norwalk Rowayton Library Jan 20, 2011
Norwalk Rowayton Library Jan 24, 2011
Norwalk Rowayton Library Jan 25, 2011
Redding Joel Barlow High School Feb 10, 2011
Stamford State Cinema Feb 3, 2011
Westport Westport Town Hall Jan 28, 2011
New York
City Venue Date
Bethpage Bethpage Library Feb 10, 2011
Bronxville Sarah Lawrence College, Heimbold Visual Arts Center Feb 28, 2011
Cross River John Jay High School Jan 31, 2011
Manhasset Manhasset High School, Auditorium Feb 8, 2011
New Rochelle Iona College, Murphy Auditorium Jan 25, 2011
New York The Center for Arts Education Feb 9, 2011
Nyack Nyack Library Jan 18, 2011
Pelham Pelham Jewish Center Jan 25, 2011
Plesantville Pleasantville High School Jan 26, 2011
Port Jefferson Station Comsewogue High School Jan 25, 2011
Poughkeepsie Spackenkill High School Jan 26, 2011
Rochester Nazareth College Feb 16, 2011
Rye Rye Presbyterian Nursery School Jan 27, 2011
Saint James Harbor Country Day School Jan 20, 2011
Utica JCC of Utica Auditorium Feb 13, 2011
West Nyack Felix Festa Middle School Feb 10, 2011
White Plains Auditorium at Ethical Culture Society Feb 10, 2011
White Plains Ethical Culture Society of Westchester Feb 10, 2011
Yonkers Saunders High School Feb 9, 2011
Yorktown Heights Yorktown High School Feb 9, 2011
