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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Precious knowledge
    sub title: revolutionary education
  title info:
    title: Fighting for Mexican American studies in Arizona schools
  title info:
    title: Precious knowledge: fighting for Mexican American studies in Arizona schools
  name:
    name part: Palos, Ari Luis
    role:
      role term: film director,
    role:
      role term: film producer.
  name:
    name part: McGinnis, Eren
    role:
      role term: film producer.
  name:
    name part: Fifer, Sally Jo
    role:
      role term: film producer.
  name:
    name part: Bricca, Jacob
    role:
      role term: editor of moving image work.
  name:
    name part: Amor, Naïm
    name part: 1969-
    role:
      role term: composer (expression)
  name:
    name part: Dos Vatos Productions
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Independent Television Service
    role:
      role term: production company.
  name:
    name part: Latino Public Broadcasting (Firm)
    role:
      role term: presenter.
  name:
    name part: Arizona Public Media
    role:
      role term: presenter.
  name:
    name part: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Documentary films
  genre: Feature films
  genre: Nonfiction films
  genre: Documentary films.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Feature films.
  genre: Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (approximately 70 min.) : sound, color.
  abstract: "Precious Knowledge reports from the frontlines of one of the most contentious battles in public education in recent memory, the fight over Mexican American studies programs in Arizona public schools. The film interweaves the stories of several students enrolled in the Mexican American Studies Program at Tucson High School with interviews with teachers, parents, school officials, and the lawmakers who wish to outlaw the classes. While 48 percent of Mexican American students currently drop out of high school, Tucson High's Mexican American Studies Program has become a national model of educational success, with 93 percent of enrolled students, on average, graduating from high school and 85 percent going on to attend college. The filmmakers spent an entire year in the classroom filming this innovative curriculum, documenting the transformative impact on students who became engaged, informed, and active in their communities. As the nation turns its focus toward a wave of anti-immigration legislation in Arizona, the issue of ethnic chauvinism becomes a double-edged weapon in a simmering battle making front page news coast to coast. When Arizona lawmakers pass a bill giving unilateral power to the State Superintendent to abolish ethnic studies classes, teachers and student leaders fight to save the program using texts, Facebook, optimism, and a megaphone. Lawmakers and politicians respond with a public relations campaign to discredit the students, claiming that a textbook used in the classes, Paulo Freire's The Pedagogy of the Oppressed teaches victimization and sedition. Officials ask that the classroom's Che Guevara posters be replaced with portraits of founding father Benjamin Franklin. Meanwhile, the students answer back by fighting for what they believe is the future of public education for the entire nation, especially as the Latino demographic continues to grow."--Publisher.
  note: produced and directed by Ari Luis Palos ; produced by Eren Isabel McGinnis ; a co-production of Dos Vatos Productions and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; produced in association with Latino Public Broadcasting and Arizona Public Media.
  note: Title from end credits.
  note: Co-production of Dos Vatos Productions and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; produced in association with Latino Public Broadcasting and Arizona Public Media ; funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
  note: Originally produced by Dos Vatos in 2011.
  note: Closed-captioned.
  note: Executive producer for ITVS, Sally Jo Fifer ; editor, Jacob Bricca ; composer, Naïm Amor.
  note: San Diego International Latino Film Festival, Audience Favorite; Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival, award winner; New York International Latino Film Festival, official selection.
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tucson High School (Tucson, Ariz.)
    topic: Curricula
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    topic: Mexican American high school students
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: Arizona
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    geographic: Arizona
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination in education
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    geographic: Tucson (Ariz.)
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    geographic: Tucson (Ariz.)
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Américains d'origine mexicaine
    topic: Étude et enseignement (Secondaire)
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    topic: Américains d'origine mexicaine
    topic: Identité ethnique
    geographic: Arizona
  subject:
    topic: Américains d'origine mexicaine
    geographic: Arizona
    topic: Conditions sociales
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination en éducation
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    topic: Éducation
    topic: Politique gouvernementale
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    topic: Ethnologie
    topic: Étude et enseignement (Secondaire)
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Tucson High School (Tucson, Ariz.)
  subject:
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Ethnic relations
  subject:
    topic: Discrimination in education
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Curricula
  subject:
    topic: Ethnology
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
  subject:
    topic: Mexican American high school students
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    topic: Ethnic identity
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    topic: Social conditions
  subject:
    topic: Mexican Americans
    topic: Study and teaching (Secondary)
  subject:
    geographic: Arizona
  subject:
    geographic: Arizona
    geographic: Tucson
  classification: LC2688.T87 .P74 2015
  identifier: 1155997 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: COO
    record creation date: 150908
    record change date: 20260528150604.2
    record identifier: in00003592709
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng