The March of Time: The Teachers’ Crisis

Overview

The Teachers’ Crisis (MARCH OF TIME) puts the pointer on one of the biggest U.S. problems—education. 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 “emergency” 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).

Details

Status

Released

Release date

March 21, 1947

Original language

English

Production

20th Century Fox,Time Inc. Studios

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

Homepage

Official site