School Overcrowding

Invisible Kids

This brief documentary shows how the prevalence of "temporary" modular buildings masks the reality of overcrowding in many schools serving low income children, and presents schoolchildren describing the impact of these inadequate environments in their own words.

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     Gang Violence

The Summer of Success: Case Study of One Proven Solution to the Gang Epidemic

The problem of gang violence can be solved. In the summer of 2003 in "The Jungle," a crime-ridden neighborhood of Los Angeles home to four feuding gangs, gang homicides dropped to 0 compared to 20 in the summer before.

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Education

Urban Peace

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