It was interesting to watch the softly spoken Ravitch in debate recently with Geoffrey Canada, the charismatic chief executive of the Harlem Children's Zone, the most high-profile charter network, eulogised in the 2010 pro-charter documentary Waiting For Superman.
He also is a major supporter of charter schools, and funded the pro-charter documentary "Waiting for Superman".
While it is an effective moment to show what kind of person Miles is, I think the issues surrounding that documentary and charter schools in general are too complicated to shoehorn into a comic.
She was heading to the Sundance Film Festival after the ceremony, where a documentary about a charter school for girls she helped found in Baltimore was premiering.
In a balanced but unabashedly passionate film directed by Ari Luis Palos and produced by Eren Isabel McGinnis, Precious Knowledge serves as a remarkable and seemingly more honest counter argument to last year's widely acclaimed Waiting for Superman, the documentary film on charter schools and the failure of public instruction.
This back-to-school season, we have Davis Guggenheim's documentary about the charter-school movement, "Waiting for 'Superman' "; two short, dyspeptic books about colleges and universities, "Higher Education?," by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, and "Crisis on Campus," by Mark C. Taylor; and a lot of positive attention to the school-reform movement in the national press.
This back-to-school season, we have Davis Guggenheim's documentary about the charter-school movement, "Waiting for 'Superman' "; two short, dyspeptic books about colleges and universities, "Higher Education?," by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, and "Crisis on Campus," by Mark C. Taylor; and a lot of positive attention to the school-reform movement in the national press.
Charter recognition or charter snub?
Charter schools, please, stop.
He showed a Vince Lombardi documentary on the team charter flight.
