Success! The Marva Collins Approach (1981)

A documentary on the teaching methods used by Marva Collins in her West Side Preparatory School in Chicago, Illinois, where phonics, classical literature, and a sincere love of children are emphasized. From Shared for historical purposes. I do not own the rights. Marva Delores Collins (née Knight; August 31, 1936 – June 24, 2015) was an American educator who started Westside Preparatory School in the impoverished Garfield Park neighborhood of Chicago in 1975. Dismayed at the low levels of learning that she felt some students were experiencing in particular areas, Collins took $5,000 (a large sum of money at that time) from her own teacher’s retirement fund and started a private school in the top floors of the brownstone in the West Garfield Park neighborhood where she lived in 1975. The school she started was called Westside Preparatory School. Westside Prep became an educational and commercial success.[6] Collins created her low-cost private school specifically for the purpose of teaching low