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TEDTalks : Alice Goffman, How we're priming some kids for college , and others for prison
Title
TEDTalks : Alice Goffman, How we're priming some kids for college , and others for prison / TED Conferences LLC.
Publication
[Place of publication not identified] : TED Conferences LLC, [2015]
Distribution
New York, N.Y. : Distributed by Infobase, 2016.
Copyright Notice Date
©2015
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (1 video file (16 min., 5 sec.)) : color and sound.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Streaming video file encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on March 03, 2016.
Originally released by TED Conferences LLC, 2015.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description (Infobase, April 10, 2016)
Access and use
Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
In the United States, two institutions guide teenagers on the journey to adulthood: college and prison. Sociologist Alice Goffman spent six years in a troubled Philadelphia neighborhood and saw first-hand how teenagers of African-American and Latino backgrounds are funneled down the path to prison - sometimes starting with relatively minor infractions. In an impassioned talk she asks, "Why are we offering only handcuffs and jail time?
Variant and related titles
How we're priming some kids for college, and others for prison
Films on demand.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
System details note
Streaming video file.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
9 & up.
Videorecording number
114617 Infobase
Genre/Form
Internet videos.
Also listed under
Infobase, film distributor.
TED Conferences LLC
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