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  • 2011
  • TV-G
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2011
  • TV-G
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 21 m

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 Eas...

Directed By: Vanessa Roth, Brian McGinn

  • 2011
  • TV-G
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 21 m
  • 2011
  • TV-G
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 21 m

American Teacher

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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 Eas...

Directed By: Vanessa Roth, Brian McGinn

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Mixed or Average Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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100
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.
By Joe Neumaier FULL REVIEW
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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.
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Sep 27, 2011
What's made powerfully clear is that we've reached a dire point of crisis that, while largely rooted in economics, is about so much more than dollars and cents.
By Ernest Hardy FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Neil Genzlinger FULL REVIEW
50
Sep 29, 2011
A very important subject gets too dry a treatment to keep one's attention focused.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Joseph Jon Lanthier FULL REVIEW
50
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.
By Ray Greene FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Sep 30, 2011
Duration 1 h 21 m
Rating TV-G
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Tagline Dedicated. Brilliant. Inspiring. Underpaid. Misunderstood. Scapegoated. There's a lesson here.
Website http://www.americanteachermovie.com/
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