Making the Grade; Making the Grade Minutes

Public Broadcasting Service (U.S.) · 1991

This collection of informational profiles features the following individuals, programs, and institutions: science teacher Ava Belisle-Chatterjee of Sabin Magnet School; Consuelo Milburn of Charles W. Earle Elementary School; John H. Kinzie Elementary School and Jeri Banks; parent volunteer Connie Jones and Suzanne Gilford of Alexander Von Humboldt Elementary School; art teacher Ken Klopack and Linda Townson of Funston Elementary School; alternative high school program Double E, student participants, and principal Garland Cleggett; Homework Hotline, program representative Katie Hession, and volunteer Conni Brown; Shelley Spencer; Katrina Sarson; Pamela James, local school council chair at Whitney M. Young Magnet School; James H. Bowen High School's drafting/geometry program; George W. Tilton Elementary School's Afrocentric curriculum, teacher Wanda Washington, and principal Jesse Moore; Brigid Gerace of Franklin Fine Arts Center; Cheryl Watkins, autism specialist at Louis A. Agassiz Elementary School; Inter-American Magnet School's bilingual program and teacher Ana Bensinger; teacher Patricia Bearden, student Carlton Lee, and parent Anna Dickerson at Ralph H. Metcalfe Community Academy; ESL teacher Elsa Gonzalez at John James Audubon Elementary School; Diane Maciejewski of Edgebrook Elementary School; Kim Wright of Bayer, Bess, Vanderwarker and geography teacher Debbie Brown at Louis A. Agassiz Elementary School; Howland Elementary School for the Arts; the Efficacy program and principal Charles Nelson at Daniel Hale Williams Elementary School. "MAKING THE GRADE was a year-long, ongoing project of WTTW/Chicago aimed at showing the range of existing approaches to the education crisis, including the need for citizen involvement in school reform. "In 1991, MAKING THE GRADE included SHOPPING FOR SCHOOLS, SCHOOL REFORM: ALL POWER TO THE PARENTS', TEACH ME!, and individual profiles of people who make a difference in education called MAKING THE GRADE MINUTES. Also incorporated into the series was a special edition of Chicago's weekly forum for independent producers, IMAGE UNION. "SHOPPING FOR SCHOOLS explores the national issue of 'educational choice,' with education experts and representatives of communities in which working choice plans are in place. SCHOOL REFORM: ALL POWER TO THE PARENTS? follows members of the local school councils as they work through their first year of this new system in school reform. TEACH ME! introduces viewers to new concepts in educational research and to teachers who are implementing them in the classroom. The IMAGE UNION SPECIAL featured videos shot by high school students about their perceptions of school and of the issue of school reform."--1991 Peabody Awards entry form.