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
Recommended Citation
Ginsberg, Alice E.
(2010)
"Waiting for Superman: He’s “Adequate” and Near Proficient!,"
Journal of Educational Controversy: Vol. 5:
No.
2, Article 9.
Available at:
https://cedar.wwu.edu/jec/vol5/iss2/9
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