Title: Waiting for “Superman”
Release date: 2010
Director: Davis Guggenheim
Summary:
From the film’s website: As filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (An Inconvenient Truth) follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,” methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems. However, embracing the belief that good teachers make good schools, Guggenheim offers hope by exploring innovative approaches taken by education reformers and charter schools that have—in reshaping the culture—refused to leave their students behind.
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