NPR's Don Gonyea speaks with director Peter Nicks about his latest documentary, Homeroom. It's the latest and final film in a trilogy about Oakland students. UNIDENTIFIED PERSON #1: Y'all need to show ...

The makers of the private photo-sharing app Cluster have been experimenting with spinning off the service’s technology into different verticals in recent days, including apps designed for documenting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nicks previously directed 2012’s The Waiting Room, set in a public hospital, and 2017’s The Force, which covers the troubled ...

Many schools have absorbed homeroom into the first class period, so no time is wasted traveling from one classroom to another. Others hold homerooms less frequently, so students might gather with a ...

Sundance: A vérité doc about the senior class of Oakland High School finds resilience in the face of COVID, tragedy, and systemic injustice. Drawing to a close with its most personal and difficult ...

Peter Nicks' documentary traces a year of institutional struggle — and COVID-caused disruption — in the Oakland public school system. By Daniel Fienberg Chief Television Critic Early in Peter Nicks’ ...

The West Jefferson Hills school district, near Pittsburgh, recently changed the schedule at Thomas Jefferson High School. Starting with the 2014-15 school year, students will have eight class periods ...

Homeroom filmmaker Peter Nicks, whose documentary delves into the lives of a high school class in Oakland, CA, dealing with troubling issues ranging from the disruption caused by the Covid pandemic to ...