HINES: I have to disagree with you about "Waiting For Superman." I don't think that's the message of the movie, is not to attack the teachers, I think it's really shining a spotlight on how we're failing our kids and how we as adults are failing – From Larry King Live Sept 29th 2010
Are we “Going Green”?
President Obama recently addressed the education needs of the US (KRQE). These needs and issues are explored in a documentary “Waiting for Super Man” (2010). The simply break down of the problem is that the public school system is literally failing the public. The mass of the adolescent population is not being educated for various reasons such as nutrition, students tracking, the recession, etc.
Moreover, the place of the US average child in math and science is lower than that of competing countries. This means that we may not have a population ready to take the “green jobs”, because they will need to be taught the related basic English, Math, and Science needed to produce and maintain new technologies.
Countries such as Japan have been on board with green tech for more than ten years. Japan unlike the US was fully on board with “Green” and did not have many competing oil companies preventing their green industry development as the US had (Deeter and Paine, 2006).
Moreover, Japan also places higher in math and science, so even though they have been in a recession longer then the US, they are a prime example of what we want, a country that has the technology and the work population ready to go Green out of a rescission.
The education challenges we face now as a country are huge, and the bet or debt we invest with deficit spending on education for most, contains the hope that US will be okay in the years to come in the Green movement (KRQE).
References
KRQE (2010)Obama's Albuquerque discussion Part 2, Retrieved from YouTube.com http://www.youtube.com/user/KRQE#p/search/8/efoVeH0GG2w on 10/03/2010
(2010, September 29th) “Fixing America's Public Schools”.
Waters, H. (Producer), Larry King Live. CNN. Transripts retived from
http://www.cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1009/28/lkl.01.html at 10/03/2010
Chilcott, L. (Producer) and Guggenheom D. (Director) (2010) “Waiting for Superman” Retrieved from http://www.waitingforsuperman.com/?gclid=CMjn3-fvtqQCFSFbiAodW2jB0g on 10/03/2010
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