Was Davis Guggenheim a Dupe or Dope or a Willing PARTICIPANT?

Is Guggenheim Leni Riefenstahl in drag?


Participant Media's CEO (maker of W4S)

Guggenheim and Riefenstahl: Separated at birth?

See below about Jim Berk, CEO of Participant Media who joined the company in 2006. Participant Media came up w/ idea for Waiting for Superman, helped produce it and is now running the “campaign” to promote its ideas to policymakers.

Gryphon Colleges Corporation part of Gryphon Investors, a $700 million San Francisco-based private equity fund which operates Gryphon Colleges Corporation, which invests in and owns for-profit EMOs.

Gryphon Investors, through Gryphon Colleges Corporation, acquired Delta Educational Systems, which operated 16 for-profit vocational schools in Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.

http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2006_May_15/ai_n16361472/

More at Norms Notes: Was Davis Guggenheim a Dupe or a Willing PARTICIPANT?

and at


http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2010/01/philanthrocapitalists-go-hollywood-with.html

 

MORE ON W4S

A great piece at The Answer Sheet by teacher Susan Graham (MUST READ), who concludes with:

And that brings me back to Waiting for Superman. Education stakeholders, like the staff of the Daily Planet, aren’t paying much attention.

There is an army of Supermen and Superwomen among us disguised in alphabet sweaters, apple jewelry and UNICEF/Save the Children ties.

Teachers are intervening in the lives of children every day and some of them have been doing it for 35 and 40 years under conditions that would crush the spirit of a mere mortal.

They’re not out there trying to "fix" children so that they look more like little Bruce Wayne Juniors. Most teachers are doing all they can to empower children to define and pursue their own understanding of truth, justice and the American Way.

All we ask is that we be allowed to do our job without being weakened by the Kryptonite of manipulation by power brokers, without exploitation by politicians, and without denigration by the media.

We’d prefer to stay in our classrooms with the kids, but there are over 4 million of us out there and before this is over, some of us just may have to take off our glasses and put on our tights.