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Are charter schools superior?: 'Waiting for Superman' poses the wrong question about school reform

Published: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 7:00 AM Updated: Tuesday, October 26, 2010, 8:17 AM

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Courtesy of "Waiting for Superman"Success in Harlem: Geoffrey Canada, who heads the Harlem Children's Zone project, is among the education reformers featured in "Waiting for Superman."

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“Waiting for Superman,” the new documentary by David Guggenheim that skewers American schools, has re-energerized the debate over the charter school movement, which the film implies is the silver bullet for school reform.

Is he right?

Guggenheim’s film features two of the biggest success stories in the charter school movement: Harlem Success Academy in New York and KIPP, which operates about 100 middle schools in high-poverty communities. Both have seen terrific results with poor, minorit