Events
Tested
Date and Time
Tuesday, March 14, 2017 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Description
The gap in educational opportunities for different racial ethnic students in America continues to persist in public schools. In New York City, where Blacks and Hispanics or Latinos make up 70% of the city’s school-aged population, they represent less than 5% at the city’s most elite public high schools while Asian Americans make up as much as 73%. This documentary follows a sample of students of color 8th graders as they fight for a seat at one of these schools. Their only way to get in to these elite schools is to ace a standardized test. Tested features the voices of education experts such as Pedro Noguera and Diane Ravitch as it explores issues including access to a high-quality public school, affirmative action, and model-minority myth.
Curtis Chin has written for ABC, Disney Channel, and Nickelodeon, and won awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and the San Diego Asian American Film Foundation. As a community activist, he co-founded the Asian American Writers Workshop and Asian Pacific Americans for Progress. His first film, Vincent Who? has screened at nearly 400 colleges, NGOs and corporations in four countries. Curtis is currently a Visiting Scholar at New York University. After the showing of the documentary, Chin will facilitate a short dialogue and engage in Q&As.
LIB 100 & 201 Approved ~ Connections to the Classroom
Social Justice & Human Rights: (LIB 100)
Upon completion of this program, attendees will have gained an
increased understanding of issues related to U.S. education systems
including access to a high-quality public school, affirmative action,
and model-minority myth.
Diverse Communities: (LIB 201)
Upon completeion of this program, attendees will have increased
knowledge of how students from some communities face barriers to
quality education and later career/job advancement.
Oppression/Discrimination: (LIB 201)
Upon completion of this program, attendees will be able to engage
in critical dialogue about how as a society we can collectively
advocate for social justice as it relates to educational equity.
Contact
Office of Multicultural Affairs at (616) 331-2177