Success through Education: A Salute to Hispanic Excellence Movie Review 1994

Presents candid and sincere discussions by Latino students concerning self-esteem, peer pressure, role models, the language barrier, perserverance, and staying in school. They also discuss what it was like to grow up in poverty and how they overcame obstacles associated with learning English, fitting into a new culture, racism, drugs, gangs, and obtaining a higher education. Comes with teacher's guide and blackline masters.

Distribution

United Learning, 1560 Sherman Ave., Ste. 100, PO Box 48718, Evanston, IL 60201, Phone: (888)892-3484, Fax: (847)328-6706, Email: info@interaccess.com, URL: http://www.unitedlearning.com, Remarks: A division of Discovery Communications

Available on VHS
Running time 24 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Education, Hispanic Culture, Adolescence

Other

Edward James Olmos