In January, the Tucson Unified School District ended its highly successful Mexican American Studies program after state officials threatened to withhold funding from schools that taught ethnic history ...

United States Congressman Raul Grijalva, Pima County Legal Defender Isabel Garcia, and others describe how the struggle for Chicano American rights in Tucson stemmed out of the inequality inherent in ...

Tucson filmmakers Ari Luis Palos and Eren Isabel McGinnis’ documentary Precious Knowledge, about Tucson Unified School District’s battle over and heart of Mexican American Studies, is making the film ...

"Precious Knowledge" reports from the frontlines of one of the most contentious battles in public education in recent memory, the fight over Mexican American studies programs in Arizona public schools ...

Paulo Freire’s 1968 book, ‘Pedagogy of the Oppressed,’ is mentioned several times in the upcoming documentary ‘Precious Knowledge’ on the PBS program ‘Independent Lens.’ The book has made the rounds ...

The public is invited to a free screening of the documentary Precious Knowledge: a Revolutionary Education, Wednesday, March 21, at 6:30 p.m. The event, which is being presented by the Raritan Valley ...