'Waiting For Superman' Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim Talks Failing Schools On KTLA

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim appeared on KTLA's morning show to discuss his latest project, Waiting For Superman. The film explores the current state of public education in the US and offers a hard-hitting look at how schools are failing our children.

Watch Guggenheim discuss the film with the Morning Show crew:
 

Comments

[Josia]

06:55 PM on 09/28/2010

It's not just the schools that are failing but our entire society. If we had taught kids 20 years ago about the meaning of their lives and how the entire system works, we wouldn't be in this predicament today.

There is a school in Israel that has already embarked on this path and with very tangible results. The advanced souls of children coming into the world nowadays are yearning for something higher than the traditional subjects. Let's face it - they didn't help us build a sustainable society to pass on to the next generation. They didn't teach us how to build appropriate relations between us that are in harmony with nature. Just the opposite.

Hopefully we will be in a position to share the method with the entire world soon.

[cjaco]

11:28 PM on 09/20/2010

The corporate shill who creates a riveting story of half-truths and bias, financed by those who brought our economy down. Now they want our schools. Instead of buying into the hype by those who know nothing about education, listen to the experts:

Jonathan Kozol - http://billtotten.blogspot.com/2007/08/big-enchilada.html
Rick Ayers - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-ayers-/an-inconvenient-superman-_b_716420.html
Jim Horn - http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/09/pledge-to-see-movie-during-this.html
Alistair Bomphray - http://teacherrevised.org/2010/06/30/movie-review-waiting-for-superman-or-just-another-clark-kent-playing-dress-up/
Yong Zhao - http://zhaolearning.com/2010/09/03/master-of-myth-what-arne-duncan-says-and-does/
Diane Ravitch - http://voices.washingtonpost.com/answer-sheet/diane-ravitch/ravitch-welcome-back-to-school.html

[seymour1155]

01:34 AM on 09/21/2010

"Good schools and "good" teachers have nothing to fear, as for the rest, well, its time for change.

[cjaco]

09:10 AM on 09/21/2010

I you judge good schools and good teachers by standardized test scores, then your definition of good schools and good teachers are upper middle class. The "rest to change" are in the lower socioeconomic neighborhoods, that you would have closed and reopened as charters that cherry pick, segregate, and teach to the test. Too bad you didn't read any of the articles I posted.

[nfsbrrpkk]

11:11 PM on 09/20/2010

Sad to see Oprah at the for-profit propaganda feeding trough cowtowing to Gates and the hedge fund managers. Voters expressed dissatisfaction with Rhee in DC and the charter con financed by the Wall Street crowd in NY. Public school teachers were silenced; however, Oprah, Gates, Guggenheim, and Rhee can't take away our votes in 2012.

[seymour1155]

01:25 AM on 09/21/2010

As it turns out, the teachers unions all over the country have had years to fix this thing. Public school teachers have taken themselves out of this argument long ago. Charter schools and folks like Ms. Rhee do not crop up unless there is an need for them. Its not personal and its not a revolution its "evolution" change is coming, and only the good in education ( we all hope ) will survive.
I hope this movie shakes things up in a way that will mean things in our schools will never be the same again. More of the same we cannot afford.
The way life works is nothing ever stays the same, it always changes its just a fact of reality. We all hope that in this case, change will be for the better, the future of our children and our nation depends on it.

"Yes We Can!"