Discussion follows with producer and education activist/philanthropist Ted Dintersmith

Where a college diploma once meant a guaranteed job, now more than half of America's new college graduates are unable to find employment. Director (and father) Greg Whiteley asks a key question: Why has our education system stayed the same while our economy has so drastically shifted due to changes in technology?

After giving a brief history lesson about Horace Mann, The Committee of 10, and the influence of the Industrial Revolution, Whiteley begins to explore alternative ways of schooling, specifically the model developed at High Tech High in San Diego, Calif.

Founded by a tech billionaire in 2000, High Tech High replaces standardized tests and compartmentalized subjects with project-based learning and a student-focused curriculum. For over a year, Whiteley follows students, teachers, and parents to see if this different model can reawaken the love of learning and offer the potential for a paradigmatic shift in education.

This is a film about parents, teachers and, most importantly, students, namely the grassroots participants that make up all the statistics we hear about on the nightly news. We see their victories and defeats, their excitement and anxiety. While the students in both classes attempt to complete ambitious projects in anticipation of their year-end exhibition (a standard at High Tech High), Whiteley begins to formulate a stronger thesis in defense of this new wave of education practices.

Most Likely To Succeed is the best film ever done on the topic of school—both its past and its future. The film inspires its audiences with a sense of purpose and possibility, and is bringing school communities together in re-imagining what our students and teachers are capable of doing. (D: Greg Whiteley, US, 2015, 86m)

Free and unticketed.

"A smart and engaging look at education in 21st-century America." The Hollywood Reporter.

Watch the trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iez92IQUHdc

Here's a recent profile on Ted Dintersmith in the Washington Post: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2015/09/11/not-bill-gates-meet-ted-dintersmith-an-education-philanthropist-with-a-different-agenda/

For more information about the movie, visit: www.mltsfilm.org