Ellen Galinsky: Fixing Education: Lessons from Waiting for Superman & a visit to the Harlem Children's Zone
It's been just one day since Davis Guggenheim's much heralded documentary Waiting for Superman opened in theaters in New York and Los Angeles. There is an enormous amount to praise in this film--its cleverly animated factoids on the grim realities in our educational system and its heartbreaking stories of five families who relentlessly seek good public, religious or charter schools for their children. Because the schools these five families decide upon for their children are coveted, there are far fewer spaces than applicants. Admission--thus fate of these five children--is decided by against-the-odds-luck in lotteries.
Did you see the trailer? Another Inconvienent Truth: Waiting for Superman by Davis Guggenheim http://bit.ly/c2MRzz
Sunday, September 26, 2010
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