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Film makes case for charter schools but doesn't explore opposition | Megan Basham

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Seventy percent of eighth graders can't read at grade level; U.S. students rank 25th in math and 21st in science amongst 30 industrialized nations; almost half the students who enter college need remedial courses. In short, the American public education system is in a shambles.

That our country faces a pressing need to fix it seems to be the one thing everyone across the political spectrum can agree on. Certain bureaucracies and teachers unions may dig in their heels, but beyond groups that have jobs at stake, the left and right are far less sharply divided on how to bring about education reform than they are on other hot-button issues. For example, both the Obama administration and Republican leaders have started looking to high-performing charter schools for methods to emulate.

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