Waiting For Superman Analysis

learns the struggles America has to find good teachers who are willing to motivate students and give them the push and motivation that they need to excel and succeed in primary school. Through his content included in Waiting for “Superman”, Guggenheim also includes actions that can be taken in order to do the reforming. This is a very important aspect to documentary. It is one thing to simply list problems, issues or reforms that need to be made by filming a documentary. Instead, Guggenheim goes beyond this as he offers alternative approaches to the current problems students are facing today. For example, “Guggenheim explores innovative approaches taken by education reformers and charter schools that have—in reshaping the culture—refused to leave their students behind” (Guggenheim, 1). We as an American society reflect our nation as one with the motto “No Student Left Behind.” Therefore, Guggenheim investigates the
A teacher-backed group called the Grassroots Education Movement produced a rebuttal film titled, The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for “Superman”. The film by Real Reform Studios refutes the claims in Waiting for “Superman”. This film also criticizes some public figures featured in Waiting for "Superman" and proposes different policies to improve education in the United States (Resmovits, 1). Overall, Waiting for “Superman” exemplifies the qualities of both an interactive and expository documentary. It seeks to change the American public school system, change policies, and influences people’s beliefs through powerful voice-overs along with questioning and interaction with students and families who are directly effected by the school systems. The documentary is clear and concise in its job of representing epistemological issues that are major in American society and currently taking