The Air Raid and the Easter Egg: Two Stories of a Scottish Childhood, 1940
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On the way to school one morning in 1940, six-year-old Maisie hears the air raid siren for the first...
Naomi
Naomi Miller And Garvin Matthews
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For Naomi life is destined to be a challenge. Born in Wolverhampton to Jamaican parents she does not...
Dork Diaries: Dear Dork
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When Nikki Maxwell discovers that her arch-nemesis, Mackenzie, has started writing a gossip column...
Ghostgirl
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Charlotte Usher has always felt invisible at school. But now she has a plan to break into the...
Tinkering: Kids Learn by Making Stuff
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After-school and out-of-school programs--as well as home schooling--have been growing steadily for...
Moving the Rock: Seven Levers We Can Press to Transform Education
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In 20-25 years K12 education can look dramatically different picture than the institution we call...
Kung Fu
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Jen B's been surviving at the nightmarishly brutal MLK High School just like everybody else: by...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated Moxie (2021) in Movies
Mar 28, 2021
Sounds like another crashingly didactic piece of post-Weinstein agitprop, but director Amy Poehler is smart enough to mix a little more grit and nuance into the formula. There are still things about the movie which grate slightly - the female principal of the school is almost comically indifferent, there's a rather-too-glib piece of plotting about a rape, and the demonisation of white men is surely problematic - but this is subtle and funny and occasionally sweet and tender, and you do care about the characters and their situations. The film is insightful enough to imply that even if an injustice is brazen and obvious, it doesn't necessarily follow that the solution to it is straightforward. This is an openly feminist film with an axe to grind, but still an accessible piece of entertainment.
Kim Pook (101 KP) rated Tall Girl (2019) in Movies
May 20, 2020
One day an exchange student stig joins the school and jodi falls head over heals for this guy, making it her mission to get him to notice her. Only problem is he starts dating her nemesis kimmy who tells jodi to stay away from him in a typical bitch of the school cliche. Of course jodi doesn't stay away and her and stig eventually start hitting it off. Throughout the movie I felt torn between who I wanted jodi to end up with, but at the same it was predictable what the outcome would be from the onset if the movie. I enjoyed the movie though, I thought it was cute.