Waiting for Superman was screened as part of the Envision Conference held at the New York Times Center on Saturday,July 10, 2010. It is a must see this fall and I was blessed to be in attendance.
The film was Introduces Lesley Chilcott, producer who also participated in the post screening discussion.
From the Academy Award winning director of An Inconvenient Truth, comes "Waiting for 'Superman,' a provocative and cogent examination of the crisis of public education in the United States told through multiple interlocking stories - from a handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting solutions within a dysfunctional system.www.waitingforsuperman.com
Public Education - Examining the Old Model and Probing the New
"Waiting for 'Superman' " offers convincing and heartbreaking statistics that characterize the "dropout factories and academic sinkholes" within the US school system, but posits hope for the future. Join some of the real world players and top thinkers examining this landscape in an exciting public discussion.
The panel moderator was Elizabeth Green, Spencer Fellow in Education Reporting, Columbia University. Panelists: Cindy Brown, Vice President for Education Policy, Center for American Progress; Christopher Cerf, CEO, Sangari Global Education Institute; Lesley Chilcott, Producer, WAITING FOR 'SUPERMAN'; Jason Kamras, Advisor to District of Columbia Dept of Education, 2005 National Teacher of the Year and Nitzan Pelman, Executive Director, Citizen Schools New York.
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