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Say Brother; Paige Academy: An Alternative Education; Angela Paige Cook comments on standardized testing
Part of Say Brother.
05/20/1977
In this clip, Angela Paige Cook, founder and director of Paige Academy, talks about the inherent racism of standardized tests for assessing intellect. Overall the program focuses on the work of Paige Academy, a private school in Roxbury for children aged three months to seven years. Hosts Barbara Barrow and Melvin Moore speak with Paige Academy Founder and Director Angela Paige Cook and the Academy's Administrative Producer, Mary Ann Crayton, to discuss the school's origins and practices, such as teaching by the nguzo saba (the seven principles of Kwanzaa). Program includes slides of Academy students. Produced by Barbara Barrow. Directed by Conrad White.
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- Series
- Say Brother
- Program
- Paige Academy: An Alternative Education
- Program Number
727
- Title
Angela Paige Cook comments on standardized testing
- Series Description
Say Brother is WGBH's longest running public affairs television program by, for and about African Americans, and is now known as Basic Black. Since its inception in 1968, Say Brother has featured the voices of both locally and nationally known African American artists, athletes, performers, politicians, professionals, and writers including: Muhammad Ali, Maya Angelou, Thomas Atkins, Amiri Baraka, Doris Bunte, Julian Bond, Stokely Carmichael, Louis Farrakhan, Nikki Giovanni, Odetta Gordon, Henry Hampton, Benjamin Hooks, Jesse Jackson, Hubie Jones, Mel King, Eartha Kitt, Elma Lewis, Haki Madhubuti, Wallace D. Muhammad, Charles Ogletree, Babatunde Olatunji, Byron Rushing, Owusu Sadaukai, and Sonia Sanchez. Series release date: 7/15/1968
- Program Description
Program focuses on the work of Paige Academy, a private school in Roxbury for children aged three months to seven years. Hosts Barbara Barrow and Melvin Moore speak with Paige Academy Founder and Director Angela Paige Cook and the Academy's Administrative Producer, Mary Ann Crayton, to discuss the school's origins and practices, such as teaching by the nguzo saba (the seven principles of Kwanza). Program includes slides of Academy students.
- Asset Type
Clip
- Media Type
Video
- Subjects
- Public schools
- Alternative education
- Civil rights
- Segregation
- Cook, Angela Paige
- Paige Academy (Roxbury, Mass.)
- Crayton, Mary Ann
- African Americans--Education
- African American women
- Alternative schools
- Genres
- Magazine
- Topics
- Race and Ethnicity
- Creators
- Moore, Melvin (Associate Producer)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Producer)
- White, Conrad (Director)
- Contributors
- Marshall, Carolyn (Production Secretary)
- Songai, Jahid (Intern)
- Barrow-Murray, Barbara (Host)
- Mahard, Fran (Scenic Design)
- Kane, Pat (Videotape Recordist)
- Wilson, Bob (Camera)
- Cross, June (Production Assistant)
- Stewart, Aubrey (Video)
- Moore, Melvin (Host)
- Johnson, Lenita (Intern)
- Sullivan, John L. (Assistant Stage Manager)
- Valdes, Mario (Researcher)
- Bordett, Bruce (Stage Manager)
- Clarke, Brian (Assistant To The Producer)
- Yang, Eileen (Researcher)
- Morton, Wil (Audio)
- Lane, Frank (Camera)
- Plausse, John (Lighting Director)
- Mackles, Gene (Graphic Designer)
- Smith, Kathy (Switcher)
- Merhar, Milan (Videotape Recordist)
- Horne, Danny (Intern)
- Smith, Lee (Lighting Assistant)
- Publication Information
- WGBH Educational Foundation
- Citation
- Chicago: “Say Brother; Paige Academy: An Alternative Education; Angela Paige Cook comments on standardized testing,” 05/20/1977, GBH Archives, accessed November 15, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E704B991699D401C900E608973999963.
- MLA: “Say Brother; Paige Academy: An Alternative Education; Angela Paige Cook comments on standardized testing.” 05/20/1977. GBH Archives. Web. November 15, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E704B991699D401C900E608973999963>.
- APA: Say Brother; Paige Academy: An Alternative Education; Angela Paige Cook comments on standardized testing. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_E704B991699D401C900E608973999963