Skip 'Waiting for Superman.' Watch 'The Lottery'. [View all]

[RandySF]

I'm home sick and just watched 'Waiting for Superman' and 'The Lottery' back-to-back. I think charter school director Eva S. Moskowitz is little known outside of New York, but her record, but she comes across more credibly than the infamous Michelle Rhee when it comes to education. And while 'Superman' throws a lot of statistical manure on the wall (much of which can be easily refuted), 'Lottery' goes to Harlem and paints a very grim, realistic picture of what happens when a school districts fails children and parents and gives them few opportunities to escape their predicament.