The March of Time: The Teachersā Crisis
Synopsis
The Teachersā Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problemsāeducation. By narrative, charts and acted episodes, the film dramatizes the fact that, with public school enrollments bigger than ever before, and constantly growing, the U.S. has fewer public-school teachers than it had in 1939. Of these teachers many are pitifully ill-trained āemergencyā amateurs. (The film shows the too common spectacle of a teacher unable to work a problem she has given students.) Still others are psychologically unfit to teach (the film shows a stupid teacher calling a pupil stupid).
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