Waiting for Superman Review

'Superman' Snub: Should The Documentary Have Been Nominated For The Oscars?

Richard Whitmire | Posted 05.25.2011

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Richard Whitmire

My advice to those cheering Guggenheim's comeuppance: Sip your victory drinks quickly, because your heady celebration lacks legs.

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Waiting for "Superman"

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

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Michael Jones

This highly effective documentary is equal parts a tragedy, a desperate call to action, and an indictment of an expensive dysfunctional system.

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Not Waiting for Superman

Tom Murphy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Tom Murphy

Guggenheim said that we must, "move past self-interest and do what's best for the kids." There are thousands of Americans who do this every year.

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Why We're All Education Activists (or, Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children?)

Jonathan Daniel Harris | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Daniel Harris

You don't know this, but you are an education activist. You care about the future of public education in America, and you're going to get involved.

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Waiting For "Superman" Has a Finger on the Pulse, But Is Still a Long Way From the Heart of the Matter

Aisling Roche | Posted 05.25.2011

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Aisling Roche

The film's perspective is divisively problematic; it does well to galvanize an overdue conversation about education in America, but presents a fiercely oversimplified portrait of the players, and fails to offer anything besides ambiguity with regards to next steps.

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An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

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Rick Ayers

Waiting for Superman bubbles over with terms like escape and rescue, promoting a liberal charity mentality that is never in solidarity the local community, only regards it as something dysfunctional that needs to be controlled.

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