At the “Get Schooled” conference, Guggenheim, director of the Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, talks about how he explained that film’s subject. “We were dealing with a huge crisis that an average person kind of worried about but felt it was too complicated, confusing, and hard to grasp. Does that sound familiar?” To show the seriousness of global warming, Guggenheim put a human face on the issue so that parents could see the cost to their children and communities, and demand public change. Now he is doing the same for public education.
In this video, Guggenheim shows a clip of his upcoming education documentary, for which he visited dozens of students in their schools and with their families nationwide. “You see the real human stakes, how a great school can transform a neighborhood. But you also see how a failing school can defeat the hard work of mothers and fathers.”
View "Get Schooled: You Have the Right," the 30-minute program that highlights the lessons learned by three young professionals, showing through real-life examples how education has made a difference in their lives.