NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with director Peter Nicks about his latest documentary, Homeroom. It's the latest and final film in a trilogy about Oakland students. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Y'all need to ...

and kept it open while the morning prayers were delivered,” Laycock said. Ellery faced consequences at school, but he was eventually allowed to leave his homeroom class during the daily devotionals.

Bible reading and prayer in schools. Almost half of respondents said "homeroom devotional services" were not held in the school district. Of the superintendents who said their districts oversaw ...

imposing prayer on students, displaying religious symbols and messages throughout school facilities, and inviting the Gideons International, an evangelical Christian association, to distribute Bibles ...

Homeroom offers a solid, if not consistently incisive, view of young people coming into themselves and their political identities in the midst of a tumultuous, unpredictable year — a year in ...

This unprecedented year is captured in vérité style in the heartfelt documentary “Homeroom.” The film maintains a tight structure, beginning on the first day of school and ending with ...

Where did they find the extra time? They got rid of homeroom, which currently takes up 21 minutes at the start of each day. (The district schedulers also gained 13 minutes by starting school ...

Director Peter Nicks just wants people to listen to kids. “Homeroom,” Nicks’ Hulu documentary about Oakland High School’s senior class of 2020 and their fight to disband the school police ...