SUnknownIssue No. 12

The Rose Parade is part of America's New Year's tradition that is held in Pasadena, California. It includes marching bands, flower-covered parade floats, and equestrians. The parade is then followed by a college football game.

The 2012 Programme for International Student Assessment ranks the United States 17 in reading, 21 in science and 26 in mathematics. U.S. scores remained flat while other countries improved, placing us 36 out of 65 countries. Meanwhile, teacher turnover increased 50% in the last 20 years, 33% of new teachers leave within 3 years and 46% leave within 5 years. The cost of this revolving door exceeds $7.3 billion a year. To improve public schools we must have teachers, the people on the front line, define issues impacting the quality of education and teacher retention. I TEACH focuses on nine teachers, with almost 200 years of collective teaching experience. With their assistance we can develop plans to improve our schools.

A short documentary uniquely presented and targeted to teens and youth informing them of the risks associated with using the drug Ecstasy (MDMA.) This documentary film is factual not scary, genuine, and contemporary. In this film real people tell their real stories. The film offers five messages; 3 messages about the risks associated with taking this drug and two strength based messages suggesting that they find balance.

A documentary road trip into time art and landscape experienced in stories found at the melting icebergs on the coast of Newfoundland, Car henge in Nebraska (it looks like Stonehenge!), a Viking fire festival on the Shetland Islands and an artist playing with fire on the north Atlantic, an abandoned amusement park in the former East Berlin, the ruins of communism in Budapest and the cemetery for dead dogs in Paris.

Funeral ceremony in Toraja land, South Sulawesi, Indonesia. A big ceremony that involved hundreds of people from all over Indonesia.