Race to Nowhere
  • Release Date: Sep 10, 2010
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  • Summary: Featuring the heartbreaking stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and worried that students aren’t developing the skills they need, and parents who are trying to do what’s best for their kids, Race to Nowhere points to the the silent epidemic in our schools: cheating has become commonplace, students have become disengaged, stress-related illness, depression and burnout are rampant, and young people arrive at college and the workplace unprepared and uninspired. Race to Nowhere is a call to mobilize families, educators, and policy makers to challenge current assumptions on how to best prepare the youth of America to become healthy, bright, contributing and leading citizens. (Reel Link Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Sheri Linden
    70
    Collecting the testimony of those who have been through the stress machine and those who have observed it firsthand, the documentary is a dire warning and solid piece of advocacy journalism, complete with an action checklist at film's end.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: Andrew Schenker
    60
    While the film's interviews with students, parents and educators tend toward the repetitious, the hammering of the same bullet-point ideas time and again only lends greater urgency to this exposé of an increasingly rotten system.
  3. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Jeannette Catsoulis
    50
    Spurred by the medical and emotional problems of her own three children, Ms. Abeles embarked on a deeply personal inquiry into the insanely hectic lives of too many of our offspring.
  4. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Ella Taylor
    50
    Abeles sheds little new light on why few parents, teachers, politicians or administrators seem willing to get off the bus.

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