Paper Tigers

Paper Tigers

One high school's unlikely success story.

2015 · 102 min · ★ 7.7 · Documentary

Follows a year in the life of an alternative high school that has radically changed its approach to disciplining its students, becoming a promising model for how to break the cycles of poverty, violence and disease that affect families.

Directed by James Redford · Written by James Redford

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