No Small Matter

Name: No Small Matter
Director: Daniel Alpert
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2019-06-21
Duration: 74 min
Cast: Alfre Woodard, Mike Brunlieb

201974m

★ 0.0

Documentary

A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the tragic cost of getting it wrong; and the huge payoff - for our kids, our families and our country - of getting it right.

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Cast

Alfre Woodard

Narrator (voice)

Mike Brunlieb

Himself

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