'Waiting for Superman': Help or menace
by Paul Socolar on Jul 28 2010
"Waiting for 'Superman'," this year's highly touted education documentary, had a preview screening in Philadelphia Tuesday night, and its producer, Lesley Chilcott, clearly hopes it can have as big an impact on US schools as her previous collaboration with director Davis Guggenheim on "An Inconvenient Truth" had on awareness of the climate crisis.
Chilcott told the audience that recent public attention to school reform issues may have brought us to a "tipping point."
"I think we have a real opportunity unlike any other time to make some
