EduShyster discovered a witty teacher who decided that educators know best. That’s why they are educators.
This is how it started:
“When a teacher came across a recent interview on MSNBC with Hollywood director M. Night Shyamalan about his new book, I Got Schooled: 5 Keys to Unlocking Quality Education, he was struck by a thunderbolt of an idea. If Shyamalan, whose last film was a box office bomb, could offer insights about improving education, maybe he, a mere teacher, could finally solve one of the great mysteries of our time: why are so many Hollywood films so bad? What’s more, why should his lack of any direct knowledge about film making or Hollywood get in the way of offering a quick fix? And so #HowToFixFilm was born: five keys that can finally make bad movies better.”
Hint: one of the keys: Fire bad directors.
A reader sent this link to the video:
http://deltascape.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-do-we-need-celebrities-to-fix.html
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Link to the article: http://edushyster.com/?p=3269
So…NBC does not invite a university professor with a new book on this subject but does invite a film director who apparently discovered the statistical concept of interacting variables over a tasty spinach gnocchi?? Yeah, we’re totally gonna solve this thang America!!!!
Although I haven’t read the book, the 5 points he raises are good. Of course, the devil is in the details. Everyone will support “retaining the best teachers” but how one puts this principle into practice is where the headaches begin.
Thanks for posting this. We had fun making the video. Here is the original post, which includes the MSNBC interview that started it all and links to other news from the “I Got School” book tour.
http://deltascape.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-do-we-need-celebrities-to-fix.html
Here’s Dave’s original post with the video. http://deltascape.blogspot.com/2013/09/why-do-we-need-celebrities-to-fix.html