Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Philip the Duke of Edinburgh, Prince Charles the Prince of Wales, and Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother describe some of the priceless paintings, crowns, jewels and other artifacts wich are part o the Royal Collection of Britain.

The Julia Richman Complex of the Urban Academy in Manhattan's Upper East Side is at the cutting edge of Human Scale Education project. The school also takes on the challenge of giving priority to pupils who have been excluded from other schools. The programme looks at evidence of the school's success, and sees what lessons can be learned by schools in this country.

"In the tradition of the classic Up The Down Staircase comes an unforgettable book about a year inside a troubled New York City school. In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York City public high school. But his hopes quickly collided headlong with the appalling reality of his students' lives and a hobbled education system unable to help them: Jay runs a drug ring for his incarcerated brother; Nee-cole is homeschooled on the s

In his first interview about his criminal fraud, Sam Eshaghoff tells how he was able to take the SAT and ACT college admissions exams for others who paid him up to $2,500 per test. Alison Stewart reports.

"Uses the bitter struggle over equal housing rights in Yonkers, New York during the 1980s to show the 'massive resistance' the Civil Rights movement confronted when it moved North"--Original container.

Fertig tells the inspiring, heartbreaking stories of three young people as they struggle to learn to read before it is too late. At the same time, the author tells a story of great change in schools as teachers and parents question the meaning of education as never before.

Ed Bradley reports on the renaissance that's happening in Harlem and it's all due to Geoffrey Canada's charter school, the Promise Academy, which is part of a plan he calls: The Harlem Children's Zone.

In 1992, EVC's youth team produced Unequal Education for the national PBS series, "Listening to America with Bill Moyers." Their film revealed the stark contrast in resources and opportunities offered to students in two Bronx middle schools - one in a middle-class area and one in a low-income community - in the same district. More than twenty years later, the crew reunited to produce Unequal Education Revisited, bearing witness to the long-term impact that inequities plaguing our society -- in e

Pierre Dulane is a former professional ballroom dancer who volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system. At first his background clashes with his students' tastes, but together Dulane and his students create a completely new style of dance.