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The David Gugginheim's movie "Waiting For Superman" was released on Sept. 24, 2010.  This movie promotes charter schools as the answer to a failing public school system.

7 Oct 2010  http://wsws.org/articles/2010/oct2010/wfsm-o07.shtml Title: Waiting for Superman: American liberalism spearheads the right-wing attack on public education"  By Dan Conway

4 Oct 2010  http://www.notwaitingforsuperman.org/Articles/20101004-IraShor   [from Rethinking Schools)  " ...Perhaps most damaging is that Guggenheim fails to portray the continual budget cuts imposed on public schooling which have undermined its capacity. He sees one primary enemy—the teacher unions and the bad teachers protected by them. Guggenheim chose not to interview prominent education critics who could have provided an alternative point of view, ....  Even Diane Ravitch would have given him an earful on the effects of privatization and testing in the last 30 years. Guggenheim’s film is missing the substantial efforts underway to improve public education from the bottom up by activists in and out of the classroom. “Waiting for Superman” gives great screen-time to a figure like Geoffrey Canada while ignoring teacher, parent and community activists who advocate for children inside the public schools. ... Organized community opposition is the only force that can challenge billionaires like Bill Gates’s who are meddling with schooling.

Sep 29 2010  Blog post by education expert Diane Ravitch http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-09-29/education-crisis-why-testing-and-firing-teachers-doesnt-work/ 

27 Sept 2010  http://www.notwaitingforsuperman.org/Articles/20100927-RAyersWashPost  What Waiting for Superman Got Wrong - Point by Point.  By Rick Ayers.  (from Rethinking Schools). 

17 Sept 2010 by  An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform   Rick Ayers, Adjunct Professor in Education, University of San Francisco   http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rick-ayers-/an-inconvenient-superman-_b_716420.html