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Opinion: Teachers Unions in the Forefront of Education Reform
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 12) -- Disparaging our children's teachers and blaming teachers unions won't improve public education. While, sadly, bashing unions is the specialty and mission of the Center for Union Facts, as it demonstrated in its AOL News opinion piece last week ("Will Teachers Unions Bend to Education Reform?"), the American Federation of Teachers prefers to focus on concrete solutions that will improve the current state of the American public education system. Do we have to makes changes? Absolutely. But improving schools requires building on what works and replicating it. There are countless ...
Opinion: Will Teachers Unions Bend to Education Reform?
By not in system - AOL News(Nov. 5) -- Democrats in Congress aren't the only ones who had a bad day on Tuesday. So did their No. 1 cash cow, the teachers unions. The two largest teachers unions -- the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers, which combine to form the single largest source of donations to Democrats -- have hit a rough patch. Not only did their political apologists in Congress just lose more than 60 seats in the House and Senate, but they've been enduring a PR nightmare of epic proportions ever since the release of the much-discussed "Waiting for 'Superman,'" a ...
The President's Sister Endorses 'Waiting for Superman'
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyThe director of "Waiting for Superman," Davis Guggenheim, has a way of making friends who happen to know their way around the White House. In his 2007 breakout documentary and Oscar winner, "An Inconvenient Truth" (starring former Vice President Al Gore), Guggenheim's excellent creative bloodlines were shown to great advantage as he essentially brought a Power Point presentation to life. (He is the son of four-time Academy Award winner Charles Guggenheim and is married to movie star and Academy Award nominee Elisabeth Shue). His new film was released last month and despite harsh criticism of ...
Charter School Lottery Gambles With Kids' Futures -- and Often Loses
By Joann M. Weiner - Politics DailyIt seems like every time I turn over a charter school rock, some unpleasant fact crawls out. That's how I felt after watching "The Lottery," a new documentary about the Harlem Success Academy and its leader, Eva Moskowitz. Like Davis Guggenheim's "Waiting for Superman," this film addresses the failures of the traditional public school system, in this case zeroing in on a New York City public charter school and the challenges it faces. (Guggenheim offers a broader picture of charter schools in the nation's capital and around the country.) Some of the facts spotlighted in "The Lottery" just ...
When Did Teachers Unions Become the Enemy for Orthodox Liberals?
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyThe new documentary, "Waiting for Superman," is the work of Davis Guggenheim, who also directed "An Inconvenient Truth." But his new movie, on the subject of school reform, takes on the teacher's union so pointedly that he practically cues the music from "Jaws" every time the union is mentioned -- and makes it look like the only obstacle to public school excellence is the ability to fire teachers with impunity. Davis isn't alone in this view, either; on the contrary, it's become the new conventional wisdom among liberals. When did we put the American Federation of Teachers on par with Al ...
'Waiting for Superman' Sends Educators to Detention Hall
By Bonnie Goldstein - Politics DailyIn an article earlier this week about political documentaries, my colleague Jill Lawrence mentioned "Waiting for Superman," which screened Wednesday at the annual Silverdocs documentary film festival at the edge of Washington, D.C. Not all documentaries are political -- some are about penguins -- but this movie most decidedly was. The film exhaustively examines a failed and entrenched public education system and lays responsibility for its bankruptcy at the feet of the federal government and those of state, county and city authorities from one end of the country to the other. Directed by ...
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