'Superman' makes urgent case for fixing broken schools | Washington Examiner: The much-anticipated documentary 'Waiting for 'Superman,' ' which opens in Washington-area theaters Friday, highlights the District's poorly performing public schools and its reformist Chancellor Michelle Rhee while making an urgent case for improving the nation's failing education system.
'Waiting for 'Superman' ' shadows five urban students, including Southeast D.C.'s Anthony Black, seeking to escape into charter schools through a lottery system.
The film concludes that exemplary teachers and principals can revitalize public schools, but that teachers unions block progress by making it nearly impossible to fire ineffective instructors.
