by Mark Phillips
Filmmakers have discovered educational reform. This is not necessarily good news. As an educator, I was initially excited about there being a number of newly released features that focus on the reform of our crisis riddled public education system. Most of our policy makers have the wrong answers. Most Americans are relatively ignorant when it comes to the complexity of the challenges. I'd hoped these filmmakers might help educate both. Having viewed three of these films, it appears to me that the filmmakers are more likely to become part of the problem than to contribute to finding solutions.
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(Marilyn on Jun 22, 2010 1:30 Pm) I would be very interested to know who funded the making of these films. Propagandist from the right might be behind them. Messaging has gotten very sophisticated these days, with, for example,...
Filmmakers have discovered educational reform. This is not necessarily good news. As an educator, I was initially excited about there being a number of newly released features that focus on the reform of our crisis riddled public education system. Most of our policy makers have the wrong answers. Most Americans are relatively ignorant when it comes to the complexity of the challenges. I'd hoped these filmmakers might help educate both. Having viewed three of these films, it appears to me that the filmmakers are more likely to become part of the problem than to contribute to finding solutions.
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(Marilyn on Jun 22, 2010 1:30 Pm) I would be very interested to know who funded the making of these films. Propagandist from the right might be behind them. Messaging has gotten very sophisticated these days, with, for example,...
- 6/22/2010
- GreenCine Daily
So many modern documentaries no longer document and have become filmed editorials determined to prove slanted conclusions and The Cartle is no exception. I usually watch these with a grain of salt knowing that what I.m not being told could easily counter what I am. Many U.S. school public systems are in big trouble. The dropout rates in the inner city are tragic, those who do manage to graduate are ill served (less than 40 percent of Us high school seniors read at an eighth-grade level), and the amount of tax dollars wasted is literally criminal. The Cartel, from writer/director Bob Bowden, places the blame for this crisis squarely on the shoulders of a corrupt teachers union (the sinister .cartel. of the title ) more focused on the protection its members’ jobs and cushy salaries than the welfare of the students. It.s a damning indictment but The Cartel is still a mostly one-sided,...
- 4/30/2010
- by Tom
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
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The movie poster for “The Cartel” from filmmaker Bob Bowdon.
Image credit: Bowdon Media
Here is the plot description for “The Cartel”:
Teachers punished for speaking out. Principals fired...
To win your free “The Cartel” movie pass to any participating Chicago movie theater at the time and day of your choosing during the film’s run, all you need to do is answer our question in this Web-based submission form. That’s it! Directions to enter this HollywoodChicago.com Hookup and immediately win can be found beneath the graphic below.
The movie poster for “The Cartel” from filmmaker Bob Bowdon.
Image credit: Bowdon Media
Here is the plot description for “The Cartel”:
Teachers punished for speaking out. Principals fired...
- 4/21/2010
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Though it hits theaters well before Davis Guggenheim’s Sundance favorite Waiting For Superman, Bob Bowdon’s muckraking exposé The Cartel nevertheless feels unmistakably like a Roger Corman quickie knock-off of Guggenheim’s much slicker exploration of the profound failure of our public-school system. Both films reach similar conclusions about the same social problems, but where Guggenheim’s documentary is thoughtful and restrained, Bowdon’s low-budget, low-fi counterpart is powered by raw rage that sometimes threatens to undermine his argument. Conventional wisdom has long contended that the central problem facing students is underfunded schools and underpaid teachers, but Bowdon contends ...
- 4/15/2010
- avclub.com
After grabbing awards in film festivals, Bob Bowdon's documentary The Cartel will premiere in the USA on April 16. It will talk about the problems that affect the American public school systems.
In order to talk about these things (with an apparent focus on the state of New Jersey), the documentary introduces us to politicians who propose solutions for the public system, teachers who are punished for speaking out, principals who get fired for taking some decisions, union leaders who have no shame or even self-serving bureaucrats blocking new charter schools. We also get the point of view of parents (some have children who can't read) and students. Besides, the documentary also talks about home-schooling as an alternative.
With that said, Bowdon also interviews education experts such as Clint Bolick (former president of Alliance for School Choice), Gerard Robinson (president of Black Alliance for Educational Options) and Chester Finn (president of the Thomas B.
In order to talk about these things (with an apparent focus on the state of New Jersey), the documentary introduces us to politicians who propose solutions for the public system, teachers who are punished for speaking out, principals who get fired for taking some decisions, union leaders who have no shame or even self-serving bureaucrats blocking new charter schools. We also get the point of view of parents (some have children who can't read) and students. Besides, the documentary also talks about home-schooling as an alternative.
With that said, Bowdon also interviews education experts such as Clint Bolick (former president of Alliance for School Choice), Gerard Robinson (president of Black Alliance for Educational Options) and Chester Finn (president of the Thomas B.
- 4/8/2010
- by anhkhoido@hotmail.com (Anh Khoi Do)
- The Cultural Post
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