The Hobart Shakespeareans

The Hobart Shakespeareans (2005)

September 6th, 20050h 52min

Documentary
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Overview

Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.


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