Synopsis
The film "Education for Excellence" highlights the educational programs for gifted children in New York City's public elementary schools. It showcases the success of these programs, including achievements in contests and talent searches. The film emphasizes the holistic approach to selecting students for gifted classes, considering not just test scores but also emotional readiness and creativity. It illustrates various classroom activities, including discussions on mass media, critical thinking, and science, while promoting the development of leadership skills among gifted students. The film ultimately advocates for nurturing children's intellectual and moral growth. Keywords gifted education, New York City, intellectual promise, selection criteria, critical thinking, mass media, leadership skills, classroom activities, emotional readiness, science education
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- Running time
- 25 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
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★★★★ · This NYC program was good for its era · ERD. · 2012-10-22
In 1964, the New York City Board of Education was still one of the top effective progressive systems. This film shows what they tried to do for the intellectually gifted students from many diverse backgrounds Interesting.
★★★★ · All about those gifted kids who you gladly picked on while you were in school. · Spuzz · 2013-09-23
Nice looking film with overachieving gifted students, you know, the ones you were always jealous of? spurting out suspiciously scripted-sounding answers to their extremely peppy teacher's questions. I like how one of the teachers wears a furry hat to class while demonstrating how an engine works. THAT'S surreal. Another hilight is the assembly where the students ask experts of many different fields questions. Look for the girl with the EXTREMELY unkempt hair and the army major who looks to be falling asleep. A curious film.
★★★ · Everybody Sounds Like Mike Savage · JayKay49 · 2012-10-21
Holy Chaarissmas! I could only make it through about half of this film. Those accents are like scratching your nails on a blackboard. Lot of litle Jewish kids, predictably, acting pretty authentically intellectually precocious. Good idea that they had these "magnet" schools for smarties. One wonders if it ever went beyond Queens. The irony is, here, in 1964 they had "Breakfast Club" a lesson in journalism. Today it would be (government subsidized) "Breakfast" followed by govenment subsidized lunch (and government subsized dinner too in some schools). Might just as well put up a "Bob Evans…