Film looks at writing

One of the latest in a slew of education documentaries, "To Be Heard" profiles three Bronx high school students who participate in an outside-the-curriculum program called Power Writers. The program is led by guest artists who teach three-hour blocks once a week at the high school and, using what the directors call "compassionate pedagogy," encourage students to write and perform soul-bearing, politically conscious poems. (Liana Heitlin at Education Week)