{"id":1037,"date":"2011-11-22T13:32:00","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/11\/22\/hot-docs-quiet-revolution-now-available-in-media-services\/"},"modified":"2011-11-22T13:32:00","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T18:32:00","slug":"hot-docs-quiet-revolution-now-available-in-media-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/2011\/11\/22\/hot-docs-quiet-revolution-now-available-in-media-services\/","title":{"rendered":"Hot Docs:  Quiet Revolution now available in Media Services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Jy9T0m7pKyM\/TsvdmaVUMiI\/AAAAAAAAAyY\/3fQQVq6ymZk\/s1600\/QuiteRevolution_20110907_94525.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 250px;height: 140px\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-Jy9T0m7pKyM\/TsvdmaVUMiI\/AAAAAAAAAyY\/3fQQVq6ymZk\/s400\/QuiteRevolution_20110907_94525.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5677875407204135458\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/><span style=\"font-size:100%\"><span style=\"font-family:georgia\">Many say Singapore has the best education system in the world. This<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> film shows how this system has produced such amazing results and how<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> it differs from the educational philosophy as practiced here in the<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> United States.\u2028 The system acknowledges that not everyone is \u201ccollege<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> material\u201d and steers students into the appropriate training or<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> educational course.<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:georgia\">The film follows the inspiring stories of two Singaporean school<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> children facing the highest stakes exam of their lives &#8211; the primary<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> school leaving exam, or PSLE. It determines where you go to secondary<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> school &#8211; and in credential-driven Singaporean society, it is a grade<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> that stays with you for life. We see the hard studies, the tears, the<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> testing grind, the passes and the failures &#8211; and learn the surprising<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> way success-driven Singapore handles academic failure &#8212; in a country<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> where the \u2018Tiger\u2019 mom or dad is nothing new. This is an in-depth look<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> at high-stakes testing &#8211; and how it affects the lives and psyches of<\/span> <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> the children.<\/span>  <span style=\"font-family:georgia\"> <span style=\"font-weight: bold\"><\/p>\n<p>DVD 9189<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><\/span>Distributor description:<br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/filmakers.com\/index.php?a=filmDetail&amp;filmID=1689\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/filmakers.com\/index.php?a=filmDetail&amp;filmID=1689<\/a>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many say Singapore has the best education system in the world. This film shows how this system has produced such amazing results and how it differs from the educational philosophy as practiced here in the United States.\u2028 The system acknowledges that not everyone is \u201ccollege material\u201d and steers students into the appropriate training or educational [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,19],"tags":[107,174],"class_list":["post-1037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-acquisitions","category-recommendations","tag-documentary","tag-hot-docs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/mediaservices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}