American Teacher

Name: American Teacher
Genre: Biography, History, Documentary, News
Released: September 30, 2011
Duration: 81 min
Rating: 60

2011

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First Run Features | Release Date: September 30, 2011 | Not Rated

Summary: The Teacher Salary Project encompasses a feature-length documentary film, an interactive online resource, and a national outreach campaign that delves into the core of our educational crisis as seen through the eyes and experiences of our nation's teachers. This project is based on the New York Times bestselling book Teachers Have It EasyThe Teacher Salary Project encompasses a feature-length documentary film, an interactive online resource, and a national outreach campaign that delves into the core of our educational crisis as seen through the eyes and experiences of our nation's teachers. This project is based on the New York Times bestselling book Teachers Have It Easy by journalist and teacher Daniel Moulthrop, co-founder of the 826 National writing programs Nínive Calegari, and writer Dave Eggers. (First Run Features)… Expand

Director: Brian McGinn and Vanessa Roth

Genre(s): Biography, History, Documentary, News

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 81 min

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Joe Neumaier

Sep 30, 2011

This heartbreaking and essential look into the lives of those who put so much into educating other people's children ought to be seen by anyone concerned about the fate of the public school system, and the nation as a whole. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Sep 28, 2011

The film is relentlessly one-sided enough to become tiring, but it's impossible not to feel for the main characters, who all love what they do while continually being forced to question how feasible it is. Read full review

Dennis Harvey

Sep 27, 2011

Its inspiring portraits of hardworking subjects make a fine case for raising the bar by rewarding excellence rather than punishing failure. Read full review

Joseph Jon Lanthier

Sep 27, 2011

The movie is a curious blend of teacher-appreciation mandate and recruitment video, though it's not always clear at whom the narration's gravely spoken factoids are directed. Read full review

Boxoffice Magazine Ray Greene

Sep 27, 2011

There is a passionate, combative and riveting documentary to be made about the plight of the American schoolteacher, but unfortunately the well-meaning, unfailingly decent and overly slack American Teacher isn't it. Read full review

Neil Genzlinger

Sep 29, 2011

American Teacher doesn't come close to doing what it sets out to do, but it does end up as a heartfelt, bittersweet portrait of several teachers. Read full review

Frank Scheck

Sep 29, 2011

A very important subject gets too dry a treatment to keep one's attention focused. Read full review

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