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Waiting for Superman: How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
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Waiting for Superman: How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools Paperback - 2010

by Participant; Karl Weber (Editor)

The Sundance award-winning documentary "Waiting for Superman" chronicles the efforts to improve America's education system. In this Participant Media Guide, leading educational reformers explore how to fix our broken public school system.


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Each book includes a 15 gift card from DonorsChoose.org to give to a classroom in need. The American public school system is in crisis, failing millions of students, producing as many drop-outs as graduates, and threatening our economic future. By 2020, the United States will have 123 million high-skill jobs to fill -- and fewer than 50 million Americans qualified to fill them. Educators, parents, political leaders, business people, and concerned citizens are determined to save our educational system. Waiting for "Superman" offers powerful insights from some of those at the leading edge of educational innovation, including Bill and Melinda Gates, Michelle Rhee, Geoffrey Canada, and more. Waiting for "Superman" is an inspiring call for reform and includes special chapters that provide resources, ideas, and hands-on suggestions for improving the schools in your own community as well as throughout the nation. For parents, teachers, and concerned citizens alike, Waiting for "Superman" is an essential guide to the issues, challenges, and opportunities facing America's schools.

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  • Title Waiting for Superman: How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools
  • Author Participant; Karl Weber (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Media tie-in
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher PublicAffairs, NEW YORK
  • Date 2010-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781586489274 / 1586489275
  • Weight 0.81 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.06 x 6.24 x 0.84 in (23.01 x 15.85 x 2.13 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Educational equalization - United States, School improvement programs - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010026986
  • Dewey Decimal Code 379.109

About the author

Karl Weber is a writer and editor based in New York. He collaborated with Muhammad Yunus on his bestseller Creating a World Without Poverty, edited The Best of I.F. Stone, and, with Andrew W. Savitz, coauthored The Triple Bottom Line: How Today's Best-Run Companies Are Achieving Economic, Social, and Environmental Success -- And How You Can Too. He edited the previous bestselling Participant Media Guides, Food, Inc., and Waiting for "Superman."
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