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Additional authors

1. WJZ-TV (Television station : Baltimore, Md.)
2. CEBA Collection.
3. World Institute of Black Communications.

Description

1. 1 videodisc (21 min.) : sound, color; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

1. An episode of the television news program "For kids's sake" on the attempt by the Baltimore city schools system to reduce Baltimore's high schools dropout rate. A group of at risk African American 8th graders are taken on a five-day Outward Bound expedition in order to instill in them self-confidence and to foster a sense of community with their fellow students.

Uniform title

1. For kids' sake (Television program)

Alternative title

1. Tough trail

Subject

1. African American middle school students > Maryland > Baltimore
2. African American high school students > Maryland > Baltimore
3. African Americans > Education (Secondary)
4. Television news programs
5. High school dropouts > Prevention

Genre/Form

1. Television news programs.

Call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1213

Note

1. This program forms part of the Communications Excellence to Black Audiences (CEBA)--Award collection, a competition sponsored by the World Institute of Black Communications, inc.

Title

1. For kids' sake. Tough trail / WJZ-TV Eyewitness News.

Publisher

1. Baltimore : WJZ-TV, 1987.

Country of producing entity

1. United States.

Type of content

1. two-dimensional moving image

Type of medium

1. video

Type of carrier

1. videodisc

Digital file characteristics

1. video file DVD

Event

1. Broadcast May 4, August 5, November 10, 1987 WJZ-TV Baltimore.

Local note

1. Archival original: 1 videocassette (U-matic) in Sc Visual VRB-2412.

Connect to:

1. Request Access to Schomburg Moving Images and Recorded Sound

Added author

1. WJZ-TV (Television station : Baltimore, Md.)
2. CEBA Collection.
3. World Institute of Black Communications.

Research call number

1. Sc Visual DVD-1213