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Jim Fields

Jim is a documentary filmmaker from Brooklyn, N.Y. His feature film “End of the Century: the Story of the Ramones” premiered at Slamdance and the Berlin Film Festival and was released theatrically in 2005. PBS broadcast the film nationally on “Independent Lens” in 2006. As the director of Video at TIME.com, Fields produced numerous short documentaries on a range of topics from immigration to space and technology. His work has also been broadcast on VH-1, The History Channel, MTV and the Discovery Channel.

Video Time Capsule: Remembering the Past Year of Pandemic Schooling in 80 Seconds

Jim Fields

WATCH: How One School Is Using House Calls to Keep Kids Learning During the Pandemic

Jim Fields & Emmeline Zhao

WATCH: Court-Ordered Desegregation in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s May Have Actually Made Race Relations Worse

Jim Fields

Watch: How a Brooklyn School Reopens — With No COVID Cases — in the Pandemic

Jim Fields

WATCH: How Much Learning Time Are Students Getting? Chad Aldeman Explains What’s Happening in 10 Large School Districts

Jim Fields

Video Explainer — The Year of the ‘Learning Pod’: With Schools Going Virtual, How Different Parents Are Looking to Launch Their Own Study Groups at Home

Jim Fields

WATCH: The Raging Debate Over Why We Should (and Shouldn’t) Reopen America’s Classrooms This Fall

Jim Fields

WATCH — The Colorful and Inspiring ‘Chalk Your Walk’ Spectacles That Separated Students Have Brought to Sidewalks Across America

Jim Fields

WATCH: New York City Kids Painting Rainbows for Their Front Windows to Give Families Hope During Daily ‘Rainbow Hunts’

Jim Fields

WATCH: The HS Musical Shows Continue — Teens Taking to Social Media to Share Performances That Were Canceled Due to Coronavirus Pandemic

Jim Fields

MUST-WATCH: For Students, the HS Musical Must Go On (Via Livestream). See Our Favorite Videos of Teen Performers Taking to the Web

Jim Fields

WATCH: Students Across America Are Livestreaming Their School Musical Performances After Theater Star Laura Benanti Launches #SunshineSongs Campaign

Jim Fields

Watch — Margaret Spellings, on America’s Priorities for a New School Year: More Equitable, Affordable Education to Sustain the ‘Innovation Economy’

Jim Fields

WATCH: 35 Years After ‘A Nation at Risk,’ the Inside Story of the 36 Pages That Changed American Education

Jim Fields

WATCH: 5 Education Facts You Didn’t Know About Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Jim Fields

Watch the Oral History: 15 Years After No Child Left Behind, Inside the Enduring Legacy of the Landmark Education Law

Jim Fields

Watch — 74 Student Profile: Troy Simon’s Incredible Journey From New Orleans to Yale

Jim Fields

Out of School Time: NYC Students Skip Classes to Protest Trump Immigration Order

Jim Fields

WATCH: Inside South Carolina’s Campaign to Empower Students with Technology #EDlection2016

Jim Fields

WATCH: In New Hampshire Schools, a New Strategy to Save Students from Heroin #EDlection2016

Jim Fields

VIDEO: Iowa’s Grand Plan to Rethink High School as On-The-Job Training — from Airplanes to Windmills

Jim Fields

VIDEO: Zombie Apocalypse Comes to Life at Atlanta School Thanks to Renowned Special FX Makeup Artist

Jim Fields

The New Hampshire Education Summit 2015 – Jeb Bush

Jim Fields

60 Candid Seconds with Jeb Bush on Education

Jim Fields