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'Waiting for Superman' director softens movie's message

  • 10-25-2010
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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…)

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