'Waiting for Superman' director softens movie's message
Blog by Louis Freedberg/California Watch
Is Davis Guggenheim backing off from the largely one-dimensional picture presented in his potent critique of the nation's public schools? In an interview with the new PBS show "Need to Know," Guggenheim takes a far more nuanced, and multifaceted, view that seems at odds with the one-dimensional argument of his documentary, "Waiting For Superman," which lays the blame for huge dropout rates on bad teachers and offers charter schools as virtually the only alternative. (more…)