WAITING FOR SUPERMAN
- Every morning, in big cities, suburbs and small towns across America,
parents send their children off to school with the highest of hopes.
But a shocking number of students in the United States attend schools
where they have virtually no chance of learning--failure factories
likelier to produce drop-outs than college graduates. And despite
decades of well-intended reforms and huge sums of money spent on the
problem, our public schools haven't improved markedly since the 1970s.
Why? There is an answer. And it's not what you think.
From
An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim comes
Waiting for 'Superman',
a provocative and cogent examination of the crisis of public education
in the United States told through multiple interlocking stories--from a
handful of students and their families whose futures hang in the
balance, to the educators and reformers trying to find real and lasting
solutions within a dysfunctional system. Tackling such politically
radioactive topics as the power of teachers' unions and the entrenchment
of school bureaucracies, Guggenheim reveals the invisible forces that
have held true education reform back for decades.
Presented by: FirstCaribbean International Bank &
and Via Cafe.
&
Bahamas International Film Festival
Thursday, June 17th see
Waiting for Superman.
Galleria Cinema JFK,
1s Thursday of the Month
April 7th to November 3rd
Film Screening 8:00pm
Donations $ 7.00
For Information contact 242-356-5939
SAVE THE DATE: December 1 - 4, 2011
BAHAMAS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL (BIFF) www.bintlfilmfest.com
