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Teaching for Global Understanding - Resources

Millennium Goals


[|Primary Source Global Education Online Resource Guide] [|BHS Library]

Brookline Online Resources

 * [|Country Reports]
 * [|Diversity Studies Collection]
 * [|Global Issues in Context]
 * [|Opposing Viewpoints in Context]
 * [|Religion and Philosophy Collection]
 * [|SIRS Issues Researcher]
 * [|War and Terrorism Collection]
 * [|World History in Context]

=**Web Resources** =

** Environmental Sustainability **

 * [|Climate Science from Climate Scientists] -a commentary site on climatology.
 * [|Ecological Footprint] - calculate your ecological footprint
 * //[|Windows to the Universe] - Interdisciplinary lessons about earth science sponsored by National Earth Science Teachers Association //
 * //[|Vermont Education for Sustainability] // - promotes the understanding of the interconnectedness of the economy, environment, and society.

**Global Economy **

 * [|Gapminder] - unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
 * [|Grameen Bank] - Banking for the Poor. Grameen Bank (GB) has reversed conventional banking practice by removing the need for collateral and created a banking system based on mutual trust, accountability, participation and creativity. GB provides credit to the poorest of the poor in rural Bangladesh.
 * [|KOF Index of Globalization] - The KOF Index of Globalization measures the three main dimensions of globalization: economic, social, and political.
 * [|MIX Market] - financial and social performance data on micro-financing institutions
 * [|Track a T-Shirt] - Track a T-shirt on its journey from charity bin to marketplace.


 * Global Partnership **
 * [|Big Sister Association] Since 1951, Big Sister Association of Greater Boston has been helping girls reach their full potential through positive mentoring relationships with women.
 * [|Bridges to Community] - a nonprofit community development organization that takes volunteers to developing countries to work, learn and reflect. We are made up of people from different cultures, countries, ages, professions and socio-economic backgrounds that work together to build relationships of empathy, respect and support.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Facing the Future] - a nonprofit, offers sustainability and global issues curriculum, professional development, service learning, and free K-12 lessons.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Heifer International] - a non-profit organization whose goal is to help end world hunger and poverty through self-reliance & sustainability.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Kiva] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"> - empowers individuals to lend to an entrepreneur across the globe. By combining microfinance with the internet, Kiva is creating a global community of people connected through lending.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Resource guide for U.S. Social Movements] - This Primary Source guide provides resources for teaching and learning about social movements in the United States. In this guide, you will find books, websites, films, video clips, and curriculum for your classroom.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Facing History and Ourselves] - Facing History and Ourselves delivers classroom strategies, resources and lessons that inspire young people to take responsibility for their world.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Invisible Children] - a movement seeking to end the conflict in Uganda and stop the abduction of children for use as child soldiers <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">.
 * [|United Nation Millennium Goals] - The //UN// Summit on the //Millennium Development Goals// concluded with the adoption of a global action plan to achieve the eight anti-poverty goals by their 2015


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Health **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Global Fund to Fight HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and Malaria] - The Global Fund is a unique global public/private partnership dedicated to attracting and disbursing additional resources to prevent and treat HIV?AIDS, TB, and malaria. This partnership between governments, civil society, the private sector and affected communities represents a new approach to international health financing.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Global Health Council] - The Council works to ensure that all who strive for improvement and equity in global health have the information and resources they need to succeed.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Global Health.gov] - Promotes the health of the world’s population by advancing the Secretary’s and the Department of Health and Human Services’ global strategies and partnerships, thus serving the health of the people of the United States.
 * [|World Food Program] WFP pursues a vision of the world in which every man, woman and child has access at all times to the food needed for an active and healthy life.


 * <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Human Rights **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Declaration of Human Rights] - On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Energy of a Nation: Immigration Resources] - the online immigration resource center of The Advocates for Human Rights, providing accurate, up-to-date information and resources for educators, advocates, and community members through fact sheets, curricula, quizzes, action alerts, policy updates, and immigration-related news and events.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|HREA] - The Global Human Rights Education Network, useful resource centre that has educational and training material.
 * [|Human Rights Council] - The Human Rights Council is an inter-governmental body within the UN system made up of 47 States responsible for strengthening the promotion and protection of human rights around the globe.
 * [|Human Rights Web]
 * [|Migrants’ Rights Quiz]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|People’s Watch] - a national human rights organization, is a program of the Centre for Promotion of Social Concerns (CPSC). People’s Watch has been actively engaged in the protection and promotion of human rights in Tamil Nadu since 1995.
 * [|Primary Source Resource guide for U.S. social movements]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Universal Periodic Review] - UN review of human rights every four years
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Youth for Human Rights] - The purpose of Youth for Human Rights International is to teach youth about human rights, specifically the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and inspire them to become valuable advocates for tolerance and peace.

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #ff0000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Peace

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Artsbridge] - brings together Israeli and Palestinian youth through art.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Force More Powerful] - Documents the history of strategic nonviolent conflict around the world
 * [|Happy Planet Index] - aim to improve quality of life by promoting innovative solutions that challenge mainstream thinking on economic, environment and social issues. (interactive map)
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|International Center on Nonviolent Conflict]- Acting as a catalyst to stimulate interest in nonviolent conflict, the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict collaborates with like-minded educational institutions and nongovernmental organizations to educate global public, influence policies and media coverage, and educate activists and organizers.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Origins] - tools for building classroom community
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Open Circle] - a comprehensive, grade-differentiated social and emotional learning program for grades K-5 children, their teachers, administrators, other school staff, parents and other caregivers.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Peace and Justice Studies Association] - We are dedicated to bringing together academics, K-12 teachers and grassroots activists to explore alternatives to violence and share visions and strategies for peacebuilding, social justice, and social change.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Seeds of Peace] - dedicated to empowering young leaders from regions of conflict with the leadership skills required to advance reconciliation and coexistence.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Teaching Tolerance] - is dedicated to reducing prejudice, improving intergroup relations and supporting equitable school experiences for our nation's childre, free classroom materials.

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 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|American Assistance for Cambodia] - an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to improving opportunities for the youth and rural poor in Cambodia.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Around the World with 80 Schools] - connecting classrooms around the world.
 * [|Barakat] - Barakat works in Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India to provide access to schools and a quality education for women and children.
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|East Bali Poverty Project] - “helping people to help themselves”, all programmes are designed as models that can be replicated, and executed by local people who transfer knowledge directly, and appropriate technology within their communities . //
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Educators for Social Responsibility] - works directly with educators to implement systemic practices that create safe, caring, and equitable schools so that all young people succeed in school and life, and help shape a safe, democratic and just world.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|EPals Global Community] - provider of safe collaborative technology for schools to connect and learn in a protected, project-based learning network. With classrooms in 200 countries and territories, ePals makes it easy to connect learners locally, nationally or internationally.
 * [|Global Education Collaborative] - Helping Teachers and Students Reach the World
 * [|Global Nomads] - an international NGO that creates interactive educational programs for students about global issues. GNG’s educational programs include four types of videoconferencing.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Hilde Back Education Fund] - A Kenyan Charity Educating Bright Children from Poor Families.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">[|Planning to Change the World] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> - lesson plans for Social Justice Teachers
 * [|Sim Sweatshop] - Become a sweatshop worker

Other Interesting Sites

 * [|Ted Talks]
 * [|WorldMapper]- a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
 * [|Mapping Worlds]
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Gapminder.org] <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">– find and create charts like we saw in the TED talk on global population //
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Google Earth] //
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|The Newseum] //
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Omniglot] Resources on hundreds of languages and writing systems //
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Mango Language]- BPL //

Web 2.0 Tools
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Web 2.0, Cool Tools for Schools <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Free Technology for Teachers] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|slideshare.net] [|prezi] [|Glogster]

Books and Articles

 * [|Global Reading: Selected Literature for Children and Teens Set in Other Countries]
 * //Banker to the Poor// by Muhammad Yunus (awarded Noble Peace Prize)
 * Engaging Students Through Global Issues (Facing the Future.org)
 * "The New Colonialists" find article
 * "Every Teacher a Peace Teacher" by David Jackson Cook, from YES! online magazine. Article recommended by Gordon Fellman.
 * Planning to Change the World isbn 0942961900 Teaching for Global Understanding Human Rights and Service Learning (look into)
 * Beyond War Douglas Fry
 * Peace if Every Step by Thich Nhat Ha
 * Mark Twain's War Prayer
 * Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Jeffrey Sachs, //The End of Poverty//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">. Penguin Press, 2005. //
 * =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">//David Sobel,// <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Beyond Ecophobia: Reclaiming the Heart in Nature Education =
 * Bury the Chains//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Adam Hochschild - anti-slavery movement //
 * A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Samantha Power //
 * Building a Better Race//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Wendy Kline - history of eugenics //
 * Say You’re One of Them//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Uwem Akpan - short stories told from the perspective of young people throughout Africa //
 * =<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I Can't Keep My Own Secrets: Six-Word Memoirs by Teens Famous & Obscure =
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Teaching companion to //One Hen//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.onehen.org/__] //
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">NY Times article on micro-lending: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/world/14microfinance.html?_r=1__] //
 * The Breadwinner//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Deborah Ellis - Children’s novel about young girl in Afghanistan //
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Brookline High School annotated summer reading on teen immigrant stories: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://tinyurl.com/3y2mve9__] //
 * Planning to Change the World//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> - lesson plans for Social Justice Teachers: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.justiceplanbook.com/__] //
 * Just and Unjust Wars,//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> by Michael Walzer //
 * The Geography of Bliss//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Eric Weiner - a look at what makes countries happy or unhappy //
 * The War Prayer//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Mark Twain: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.positiveatheism.org/hist/twainwp.htm__] //
 * //<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Gandhi vs. Terrorism,” by Mark Juergensmeyer: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://intellibriefs.blogspot.com/2007/03/gandhi-vs-terrorism.html__] //
 * Project Mulberry//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">, by Linda Sue Park - children’s book about silk worms and team work: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.lindasuepark.com/books/mulberry.html__] //
 * Bury the Chains//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Adam Hochschild - anti-slavery movement //
 * A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Samantha Powe //
 * Building a Better Race//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Wendy Kline - history of eugenics //
 * Say You’re One of Them//<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">, by Uwem Akpan - short stories told from the perspective of young people throughout Africa

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #008000; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Movies

 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Gasland” - natural gas issues in the U.S.: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://gaslandthemovie.com/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Blue Gold: World Water Wars” - documentary on water scarcity: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__www.bluegold-worldwaterwars.com/__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“Flip Flotsam” - documentary about the life of a flip-flop: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.journeyman.tv/?lid=12179__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“A Small Act” - HBO documentary about the impact of a small act: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.asmallact.com/index.php__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“2 Million Minutes” - a look at high school education in the US, China, and India: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.2mminutes.com/about.asp__]
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">WideAngle films from PBS: <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000099; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">[|__http://www.pbs.org/wnet/wideangle/__]

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Films to address human rights issues:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“China Blue”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Hotel Rwanda”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Sometimes in April”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The Constant Gardener”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“The Power of One”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Rabbit-Proof Fence”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Milagro Beanfield War”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">“Not For Ourselves Alone”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mickey Mouse Monopoly
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">A Powerful Noise