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Jonathan Alter

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This documentary follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, and undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.
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Jonathan Alter was born in 1957 in Chicago, Illinois, USA. He is an author, journalist, producer and actor, known as an executive producer of Amazon's "Alpha House," the author of three New York Times bestsellers on American history and politics, political journalism in many publications, and his commentary on NBC News and MSNBC, the Colbert Report, the Daily Show, Real Time with Bill Maher, Charlie Rose, Nightline, Late Show with David Letterman, among others. He appeared in Waiting for 'Superman' (2010), Out of the Shadows: The Man Who Was Deep Throat (2006), Clinton: The American Experience (2012) and several A & E and History Channel documentaries. He has been married to Emily Lazar since October 18, 1986. They have three children.
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      • 2 wins & 1 nomination total

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    John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson, and Matt Malloy in Alpha House (2013)
    Alpha House
    7.5
    TV Series
    • Producer

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    • The Reagans (2020)
      The Reagans
      6.9
      TV Mini Series
      • consulting producer
      • 2020
    • Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018)
      Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
      8.0
      • producer
      • 2018
    • I am Jane Doe (2017)
      I am Jane Doe
      6.8
      • executive producer
      • 2017
    • John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson, and Matt Malloy in Alpha House (2013)
      Alpha House
      7.5
      TV Series
      • executive producer
      • 2013–2014

    Writer



    • Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists (2018)
      Breslin and Hamill: Deadline Artists
      8.0
      • Writer
      • 2018
    • I am Jane Doe (2017)
      I am Jane Doe
      6.8
      • story
      • 2017
    • Helen Shaver, Mariette Hartley, John Shea, and Harris Yulin in WIOU (1990)
      WIOU
      7.2
      TV Series
      • Writer
      • 1991

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    • I am Jane Doe (2017)
      I am Jane Doe
      6.8
      • story editor
      • strategy/publicity
      • 2017

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    Episode: Alpha House
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    Waiting For Superman
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    Waiting for Superman
    Trailer 2:35
    Waiting for Superman
    Trump: What's the Deal? - Trailer
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    Trump: What's the Deal? - Trailer

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      • 1957
      • Chicago, Illinois, USA
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      • Emily LazarOctober 18, 1986 - present (3 children)
    • Children
        Charlotte Alter
    • Other works
      Release of the biography: "The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope".

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      Survived lymphoma cancer with the help of chemotherapy, surgery and an adult-stem-cell bone-marrow transplant.
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      • Jon

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