Waiting for "Superman" (2010)

Directors

Davis Guggenheim

Cast

George Reeves, Geoffrey Canada, The Black Family, The Esparza Family, The Hill Family, Michelle Rhee, Bill Strickland, Randi Weingarten

The story

Geoffrey Canada describes his journey as an educator and recounts the story of his devastation when, as a child, he discovers that Superman is fictional, that "there is no one coming with enough power to save us." Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. Things such as the ease in which a public school teacher achieves tenure, the inability to fire a teacher who is tenured, and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers are shown to affect the educational environment. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between…

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