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Joe McCrawEducation and the Military

Political policies such as No Child Left Behind seek to disenfranchise certain portions of the population in order to have a large pool of uneducated youths with no avenues for economic success. These communities become targets for recruitment. The poor inevitably fight the wars of the rich.

This is a montage of images and video that seek to visualy represent the message conveyed in the song They Schools.

Music by Dead Prez. "They Schools"-Lets Get Free-Sony Music.


This movie is part of the collection: Ourmedia

Producer: Joe McCraw
Keywords: Education; Military; Militarism; pedagogy; opressed; indoctination; iraq; war; dead prez; No Child Left Behind

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike

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Reviewer: Jason Puget - - September 19, 2006
Subject: Trite and Flacid
This video is a simple and unsatisfying formula. Take a few gritty images and juxtapose them against each other in order to attempt to create a synergy. Fail. Lay visuals down with outdated audio track. This is self-important crap.

As for this person's thoughts on the No Child Left Behind policy, of course it's a bad idea. However, his articulation of why it will be ineffective is not only as hole-ly as the pope but draws away from those that have the ability to study what it is that they are rallying against and form coherent arguments with useful information.

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Joe McCraw