The Cartel has been recognized by the New York Post, the LA Times, and the Boston Globe. Now, USA Today mentions The Cartel among education reform documentaries:
Could 2010 be the year moviegoers get the angry urban parent with a hand-drawn placard, demanding more high-quality charter schools and an end to teacher tenure?This summer, no fewer than four new documentaries, most of them independently produced, tackle essentially the same question: Why do so many urban public schools do such a bad job -- and what can be done to help kids trapped in them?
Among the new films:
- Teached, directed by activist and one-time Teach For America corps member Kelly Amis: It tackles teacher tenure, bureaucracy and "anti-child work rules that permeate every school in America," among other issues.
- The Cartel, directed by former TV news anchor and reporter Bob Bowdon: It takes on the "unconscionable failure" of New Jersey's public schools.
- The Lottery, an intimate look at four families' attempts to get their children into an oversubscribed Harlem charter school.
- The biggest and flashiest of the four? Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who won an Oscar for ... An Inconvenient Truth.
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Mike Petrilli of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington, D.C., education think tank, says school reform "has gone mainstream -- it's certainly politically mainstream now." The grass-roots push for better schools "fits into a larger American narrative about how small groups of people can change the world."
The Cartel will be featured at the Where's the Outrage conference on school choice this August. Learn more and read about other happenings at TheCartelmovie.com.