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For weeks now the ad banner for the film, Waiting for "Superman" has been very prominent on The Huffington Post. The film has generated rave reviews (91% positive on the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer). More importantly, it has stimulated robust conversation and debate around the subject of education reform. But will the film's ideas, fueled by its pop culture success, lead us down the wrong path?
Most films about education, dramas and documentaries alike, are drawn to the heroic model for fixing problems. If Clark Kent would just give up the newspaper job (before he's downsized?), and move his "S" to an inner city school, he could transform it into a super-powered charter school that could leap test scores in a single bound as
