Lessons Learned 'Waiting for Superman' Documentary Highlights the Dire State of the U.S. Public School System

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Davis Guggenheim knows he's not going to please everybody - maybe anybody, really - with "Waiting for 'Superman."'

The Oscar-winning documentarian's new film focuses on the problems of this country's public-education system.

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Lessons Learned 'Waiting for Superman' Documentary Highlights the Dire State of the U.S. Public School System

"The subject of public education is so full of wormholes," says the 47-year-old filmmaker, who directed the global-warming documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." "You follow one train of thought and then you're confused. One thing contradicts the next."

Guggenheim says he tried to do "Waiting for 'Superman"' as "if you're sitting around t...

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