Inside Higher Ed – Angel B. Perez
“If K-12 education is waiting for Superman, then higher education in America must long for the Incredible Hulk. In the movie “Waiting for Superman,” Davis Guggenheim highlights the problems that plague elementary and secondary education in this country, and illustrates how a system challenged with systemic injustice and bureaucratic red tape is obstructing students from attaining the American dream — a shot at college. But what happens when those students who make it arrive at the doorstep of the ivory tower and realize (like Geoffrey Canada, the educator in the movie whose childhood awakening inspired the documentary’s title) superheroes don’t exist?”(more)