Keep me searching for a heart of stone?
by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY Going to see the documentary, Heart of Stone, tonight at the Roxie Theater in San Francisco. It’s about a Newark, NJ, high school’s attempts to confront its prevailing culture of...
View ArticleMovie Review: ‘Heart of Stone': One principal’s fight to take back his school
by ALISTAIR BOMPHRAY The most striking image from Heart of Stone, the recent documentary about Weequahic High School in Newark, NJ, a school devastated by gang violence, is of principal, Ron Stone, in...
View ArticleMovie Review: Waiting for Superman: Or just another Clark Kent playing dress-up?
Let me make this clear right away. I think this is a bad documentary. As a piece of journalism, it’s lazy and manipulative. As a “methodical dissection” of our public education system (which the film’s...
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