(2010-09-08) Waiting For Superman

Fred Wilson just saw Waiting For Superman, a movie making the case for Education Reform (Educating Kids). The Harlem Childrens Zone is at the center of the story. I Commented.

• interesting comment by Prokofy who has a related post about his son's problem in NYC Public School-s (Educating Kids InNyc).

Fred also pointed at a long article about the movie. This cascade of lefty-yuppie guilt led to Guggenheim’s first epiphany: to put himself in the film as its narrator, which would let the piece take, he says, “the tone of an op-ed.” His second was to make in effect two separate movies, welding them together only at the last minute. Movie No. 1 would be the story of the kids and the Charter School Lottery-s, while Movie No. 2 would deal with what Guggenheim calls “the folly of the adults”—from the parade of presidents of both parties pledging fundamental change but delivering none, to the administrators shuffling bad teachers from school to school, to the Teachers Union bosses chanting “It’s all about the kids” while working feverishly to protect their members’ every contractual right and privilege.