Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field

Notes from the Field

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Notes from the Field

2018

1h 30m

6.3(6 votes)

Drama

TV Movie

Overview

A dramatization of the accounts of the students, parents, teachers and administrators caught in America’s school-to-prison pipeline, which pushes underprivileged, minority youth out of the classroom and into incarceration.

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HBO Films

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Anna Deavere Smith

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Anna Deavere Smith

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