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Waiting for Superman

Review: Anti-union movie ‘Won’t Back Down’ is a step backward

September 28, 2012 by From wire service reports
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Categories District Management, eClassroom News, IT Management, Teaching & Learning, Top News, Viewpoint

Chicago teacher strike poses test for unions

September 11, 2012September 11, 2012 by From staff and wire reports
The massive teacher strike in Chicago offers a high-profile test for the nation’s teacher unions, which have seen their political influence threatened as a growing education reform movement…
Categories District Management, eClassroom News, IT Management, Teaching & Learning, Top News

New movie reignites debate over ‘parent trigger’ laws

August 31, 2012August 30, 2012 by From staff and wire reports
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Categories District Management, eClassroom News, IT Management, Teaching & Learning, Top News

The top 10 ed-tech stories of 2010: No. 2

January 3, 2011December 31, 2010 by From staff reports
The controversial documentary film Waiting for ‘Superman’ has shined a national spotlight on the need for school reform, while sparking intense debate over how best to achieve this…
Categories District Management, IT Management

Opinion: This ‘Superman‘ doesn’t fly

November 21, 2010November 8, 2010 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor, <a href="mailto:dpierce@eschoolnews.com">dpierce@eschoolnews.com</a>
As a strong supporter of American public education, I don’t know what’s more depressing: that the film Waiting for ‘Superman’ is so bad, or that so many critics…
Categories District Management, IT Management, Registration Required, Viewpoint

Viewpoint: Is Superman the conversation we need?

November 4, 2010 by By Gerald N. Tirozzi
It’s hard to look away from the small, vulnerable faces of the children whose educational odysseys are highlighted in the movie Waiting for Superman. It’s hard not to…
Categories District Management, IT Management, Viewpoint

Despite image, union leader backs school change

October 19, 2010 by Laura Ascione
In “Waiting for Superman,” the new education documentary, the union leader Randi Weingarten is portrayed, in the words of Variety, as “a foaming satanic beast," the New York…
Categories Teaching & Learning

Opinion: Stop trashing teachers!

October 1, 2010 by Laura Ascione
Obama’s misguided policies and the overhyped documentary Waiting for “Superman” have turned America against its teachers, education expert Diane Ravitch writes for The Daily Beast—and this vitriol is…
Categories District Management, Teaching & Learning

‘Waiting for Superman’: A simplistic view of education reform?

September 27, 2010 by Laura Ascione
“Waiting for ‘Superman,’” which opened Sept. 24 in New York and Los Angeles, has generated buzz for months in education circles. The film also offers a broad-brush indictment…
Categories District Management, IT Management, Teaching & Learning

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