Leavey School of Business smeared by "Inside Job"

jskinner@scu.edu (Grad Bus INC-ISC Student) — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 10:57:00 PST

The film "Inside Job" offers a great analysis of the Great Recession and how the greed of our investment banks brought it on. But the film shows a graphic that suggests that the Leavey School of Business was somehow involved! Read my article to hear the whole story.

Waiting for Superman hits theaters

jskinner@scu.edu (Grad Bus INC-ISC Student) — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:27:00 PST

Blogopolis finally got a chance to see "Waiting for Superman" last night and we strongly recommend that you go see this film! It's an incredible documentary about what's wrong with the public education system and how it can be fixed and ... Zzzzz...

Hey, wake up! C'mon, I just said "public education" one time and you fell asleep there. Imagine how hard it's going to be for this film to find an audience if people can't even stay awake for the blog post about it.

Let us tell you a little bit about this film. It'll be worth your time, I promise. The film has a classic "what is wrong and how to fix it" structure. What's interesting is that we've never seen any "fixed" schools before, so the fact that the filmmaker found some great school to document saves this film from being a simple cry for help. The film is in fact a very uplifting experience.

Another noteworthy thing is that the filmmaker finds the real problem in the education system, which is the teachers' union (and the immediate tenure that grade school teachers get). Somehow the filmmaker was able to get footage of the hundreds of bad teachers that the NY public system takes out of the classroom each year and puts in "the rubber room", a place where they sit around and wait for hearings (for the rest of their tenure). You must see the footage of all these teachers crammed in this room, sleeping and playing cards. It's really memorable.

Blogopolis hopes that you will go out and see this film. It will give you empathy for the kids caught in the public school system and, even better, will give you a glimmer of hope as it looks at the miracle workers that are striving for a better system of education. You even get to see footage of Menlo Park's high school, which apparently "tracks" kids into high and low performing classes even before they've done a day of schoolwork.

Check out "Waiting for Superman" before it leaves theaters!

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Leavey School of Business smeared by "Inside Job"

Waiting for Superman hits theaters