Trailer

No Small Matter

Runtime
1hr 14mins
Directed by
Daniel Alpert, Greg Jacobs, Jon Siskel
Featuring
Alfre Woodard (narrator)
Body

Through our Virtual Screening Room, you can rent films curated by the Coolidge team, while helping to support the Coolidge during this unprecedented time.

No Small Matter is the first feature documentary to explore the most overlooked, underestimated, and powerful force for change in America today: early childhood education. Through poignant stories and surprising humor, the film lays out the overwhelming evidence for the importance of the first five years and reveals how our failure to act on that evidence has resulted in an everyday crisis for American families, and a slow-motion catastrophe for the country.

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Plus, Lauren Birchfield Kennedy, co-founder of Neighborhood Villages, and Cecilia Matson, M.A., director of Galoop Children's Program, joined us on Tuesday, July 14 at for a virtual PANORAMA discussion about the film that you can watch below:

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