Sunday, January 31, 2016

"Tested" at Clark University

Tested”

A documentary by Curtis Chin

Higgins Lounge at Dana Commons

 

The gap in opportunities for different races in America remains extreme. Nowhere is this more evident than our nation’s top public schools. In New York City, where blacks and Hispanics make up 70% of the city’s school-aged population, they represent less than 5% at the city’s most elite public high schools. Meanwhile Asian Americans make up as much as 73%. This documentary follows a dozen racially and socio-economically diverse 8th graders as they fight for a seat at one of these schools. Their only way in: to ace a single standardized test. Tested includes the voices of such education experts as Pedro Noguera and Diane Ravitch as it explores such issues as access to a high-quality public education, affirmative action, and the model-minority myth.


SCREENING: 3PM - 4:30PM
Q&A with filmmaker Curtis Chin: 4:30 - 5:00PM

Light refreshments will be served. 

Co-sponsored by 
The Office of Diversity and Inclusion 
and 
The President's Office

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