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This programme examines the major problems of Chicago as they impinge on the educational system of the city. The programme includes film of Metro High School (the Chicago Public High School for Met...ropolitan Studies): a serious attempt to come to terms with, and overcome, the major shortcomings of the public and parochial school systems in Chicago.
This programme examines the major problems of Chicago as they impinge on the educational system of the city. The programme includes film of Metro High School (the Chicago Public High School for Met...ropolitan Studies): a serious attempt to come to terms with, and overcome, the major shortcomings of the public and parochial school systems in Chicago.
| Module code and title: | E351, Urban education |
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| Item code: | E351; 01 |
| Series: | Chicago |
| First transmission date: | 16-02-1974 |
| Published: | 1974 |
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| Duration: | 00:23:06 |
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| Producer: | Gwynn Pritchard |
| Contributors: | Armin Beck; Nate Blackman; John Raynor |
| Publisher: | BBC Open University |
| Keyword(s): | Chicago; Educational system; Ethnic neighbourhoods; Metro High School; Problems and solutions; Public and parochial systems |
| Footage description: | Introductory music. Aerial shots of Chicago. John Raynor on a balcony overlooking the city sketches its multiplicity of communities, and describes the physical development of the city. Shots of skyscrapers from below. Streets in the central business area: The Loop. Expressways and railway tracks, from alongside and overhead. Squalid inner city streets. Professor Armin Beck talking to camera on several changes in the past fifteen years which have not been met by the educational system. Moving shots of traffic and train. Aerial views of the city. Musical background. Voice over, John Raynor describes the spread of the middle classes to the outer suburbs leaving isolated schools in central area. Film of these. He then describes the black ghetto on the south and West sides. Film of squalid housing and gangs. Shots of large wall painted to show guns, groups of black figures, soldiers. Musical background. Raynor points out the problems faced by the schools. Two black teachers talk about the success of Metro, the Chicago Public High School for Metropolitan Studies. Raynor comments voiceover, and Principal Nate Blackman points out its success in sending students on to higher education. Shots of the office block housing Metro. Interior of Metro: a school room with students. Voice over, Raynor introduces comments from students. A filmed sequence shot at a local zoo shows a typical lesson. More classroom scenes. Raynor points out the wide range of options and variety of teachers, including volunteers. Scenes from an Esperanto lesson. A white student comments on the responsibility the school gives him. Shots of black student classes taking place at the Centre for Inner City Students. A black teacher describes how community resources are utilised. More shots of central Chicago. Raynor points out the growth of 'alternative' schools as private and short lived experiments. Metro's special problems are described by a black teacher. Closing credits and music over the wall painting seen earlier. |
| Master spool number: | 6HT/71192 |
| Production number: | 00525_6060 |
| Videofinder number: | 3902 |
| Available to public: | no |
