Educating Peter
7.2 /10 1 Votes
Director Gerardine Wurzburg Duration Language English | 7/10 IMDb Genre Documentary, Short Country United States | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Release date 1992 (1992) Cast Peter Gwazdauskas, Judy Gwazdauskas Producers Gerardine Wurzburg, Thomas C. Goodwin, Sheila Nevins Similar movies Gerardine Wurzburg directed Educating Peter and Autism Is a World | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Educating peter
Educating Peter is a 1992 American short documentary film directed by Gerardine Wurzburg about Peter Gwazdauskas, a special needs student with Downs syndrome, and his inclusion in a standard third grade classroom in Blacksburg, Virginia. It won an Academy Award at the 65th Academy Awards in 1993 for Documentary Short Subject.
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Oscar Winning documentary short from 1992
Cast
Plot
Peter Gwazdauskas, a special needs boy with Downs Syndrome, is going to a traditional school with regularly developing students. Originally, he was in a special needs school with autistic/special needs students. Peter was enrolled in a traditional school because federal law states that special needs students should be educated with regularly developing students in traditional schools. Peters first half of the school year was not going well because he was doing behaviors such as making loud noises, rolling around on the floor, and being injurious towards other students in class. But when it was the middle of the year in January, things started to improve much better for Peter and he did just fine towards the end of the school year. Because of his improvements throughout the year, Peter received an award for being an exceptional student on the last day of school along with his other classmates.
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Similar Movies
Gerardine Wurzburg directed Educating Peter and Autism Is a World. Gerardine Wurzburg directed Educating Peter and Wretches & Jabberers. Little Dieter Needs to Fly (1997). The Panama Deception (1992). Sheila Nevins produced Educating Peter and was an executive producer for When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts.
Sequel
Graduating Peter was released in 2001. The sequel follows Peter in middle school, high school, and his high school graduation.
References
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