New Documentary Focuses On Education Reform

Tom Marshall wrote in the St Petersburg Times (8/3) "Gradebook" blog that David Guggenheim, creator of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," is directing a new documentary that focuses on education reform called "Waiting for Superman." DC Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee is in the documentary, as is Geoffrey Canada, founder of the Harlem Children's Zone. Marshall added, "Judging from the trailer," Waiting for Superman makes an "emotion-laden call to action" similar to that of "An Inconvenient Truth," "just substitute Al Gore for a classroom's-worth of ambitious kids, angry parents, lagging Pisa scores, and a star-studded cast of national ed reformers."