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Document Type

Article in Response to Controversy

Abstract

In the second week of its national release, the documentary film Waiting for Superman-- about America’s so-called “failing” public school system-- jumped from number 194 in gross receipts to number 20 (Entertainment Weekly, 2010). It couldn’t have hurt that the film was featured as a cover story by Amanda Ripley (2010) in Time magazine only a few weeks earlier, with the provocative tag line: “Can a movie change education?” (Ripley, 2010). Or for that matter, that the film was lauded on The Oprah Winfrey Show (2010), during the course of which Oprah, so moved by the movie, pledged to give $6,000,000 (via her Angel Network) to charter schools across the country.

Genre/Form

articles

Subjects - Topical (LCSH)

Educational accountability--Law and legislation--United States; Education--Standards--United States; School improvement programs--United States; Teacher effectiveness--United States; School failure--United States

Geographic Coverage

United States

Language

English

Format

application/pdf

Type

Text

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