Duncan Attends Advance Screening Of Teacher Documentary

Education Week (5/26, Rebora) reports on a new education documentary titled "American Teacher" which asks, "why are teachers in the United States so undervalued and lately even disparaged?" It was "produced by author Dave Eggers and Nínive Clements Calegari, a former teacher who helped Eggers create the 826 National tutoring centers. The film was shown last night at an advance screening in Washington attended by US Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and assorted other government officials and policy mavens. ... Narrated by Matt Damon, 'American Teacher' seeks to counteract popular misconceptions about the teaching profession by showing, in a style of close-up realism, what teachers actually do and what their lives are really like-and how continued neglect of the profession may be jeopardizing the nation's future."