Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system -- the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across our country.... (Full plot summary below)
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Weaving interviews of policy experts and startling facts with the lives and careers of four teachers, American Teacher tells the collective story by and about those closest to the issues in our educational system -- the 3.2 million teachers who spend every day in classrooms across our country.
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| New York Daily NewsJoe NeumaierThis 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. |
| Film Journal InternationalDavid NohTerrific, uplifting and heartbreaking study of what it's like to teach in America today should inspire intense admiration and even more intense anger over what is revealed. |
| Shockya.comBrent SimonAn inoffensive but hardly essential piece of occupational boosterism. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranAs we watch the individuals in "American Teacher" struggle with the burdens the system places on them, it's hard not to feel like crying, both for them specifically and for our national culture. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckA very important subject gets too dry a treatment to keep one's attention focused. |
| AV ClubAlison WillmoreThe 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. |
| CompuserveHarvey S. KartenA staid documentary about teaching below the college level marred by incessant, unnecessary music in the soundtrack and by conventional direction. |
| Playback:stlSarah BoslaughVanessa Roth's documentary American Teacher positions itself as a rebuttal to those who make political points maligning American teachers. |
| New York TimesNeil GenzlingerAmerican 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. |
| VarietyDennis HarveyIts inspiring portraits of hardworking subjects make a fine case for raising the bar by rewarding excellence rather than punishing failure. |
