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The Way It Is

196756mMovieDocumentary

This documentary (first of a five-part series on education) examines the battle to educate at Junior High School 57-a slum school in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto. In September 1966, New York University's Clinic for Learning, backed…

DirectorHarold Mayer
WriterLynne Rhodes Mayer
ProducerHarold Mayer

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Cast · Directed by Harold Mayer

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The Way It Is hasn't started streaming in United Kingdom yet. Based on the typical 6–8 week theatrical-to-streaming window, we estimate it will arrive around June 19, 1967. This is a prediction, not a confirmed date.