'Waiting for Superman' and American education reform
By Howard Blume/Los Angeles Times
In his previous Oscar-winning documentary, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim handled Al Gore, manmade climate change and imminent global peril. This time, he's really grabbing something hot: education reform. In "Waiting for Superman," which opens Sept. 24 in Los Angeles and New York City, Guggenheim vies to do for education reform what "An Inconvenient Truth" did for global warming: raise awareness, make people care and push toward a solution. But this latest docu-editorial will divide some of his biggest fans. (more…)
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