When An Inconvenient Truth hit the cultural consciousness back in 2006, it made a lot of people stop and think. No longer was Global Warming just a pair of big words with even bigger consequences. The movie brought hard science to the masses, making planet earth the star of the film. Now director Davis Guggenheim tackles another seemingly intractable problem, the crumbling state of American schools. In his new documentary, Waiting for "Superman," Guggenheim once again succeeds in bringing hard data down to earth and puts a human face on the problem through the heart-wrenching tales of several young students. While the drama is compelling and the film is well produced, in the end, Waiting for "Superman" left this reviewer wondering just what do we do next?

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