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Race To Nowhere
''Race to Nowhere'' is a 2009 documentary film written by Maimone Attia and directed by Vicki Abeles and Jessica Congdon. Background Director Vicki Abeles made this movie after the pressures of school, homework, tutoring and extracurricular activities made her middle-school daughter physically sick. Abeles started to make major changes at home, but the problem seemed more systemic. She heard similar stories about the unintended consequences upon kids of today’s education system and culture. The difficulty at first seemed to center on one critical issue: the plight of students driven to acquire the strong performance requirements for selection by top universities for enrollment to ensure rewarding careers. The film recounts the story of a local high school girl who committed suicide under fear of academic failure. Synopsis ''Race to Nowhere'' is a film containing stories of young people across the country who have been pushed to the brink, educators who are burned out and wor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Adler (composer)
Mark Adler (born 1959) is an American software engineer. He is best known for his work in the field of data compression as the author of the Adler-32 checksum function, and a co-author together with Jean-loup Gailly of the zlib compression Library (computing), library and gzip. He has contributed to Info-ZIP, and has participated in developing the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format. Adler was also the Spirit rover, Spirit Cruise Mission Manager for the Mars Exploration Rover mission. Early life and education Adler was born in Miami, Florida and raised as the only child of David and Bertha Adler. Adler earned his Bachelor of Science in mathematics and Master of Science in electrical engineering degrees from the University of Florida in 1981 and 1985, respectively. In 1990, Adler earned his Ph.D. in physics from the California Institute of Technology. Career Post-doctoral After his doctorate, Adler worked for Hughes Aircraft in their Space and Communications Group, worki ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |