Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (The Inconvenient Truth) reminds us that education “statistics” have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. As he 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, and ultimately questioning the role of unions in maintaining the status quo, 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.
Make a pledge to education by watching this film. Meet a student and someone bettering the school systems in the above movie clip from the documentary.
WAITING FOR SUPERMAN is now playing in select theaters and expanding October 8, 2010.
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Waiting For Superman
Paramount Vantage
Directed By: Davis Guggenheim
Produced By: Leslie Chilcott. Executive producers, Jeff Skoll, Diane Weyermann. Co-producer, Eliza Hindmarch.
