{"id":257,"date":"2010-09-27T18:14:01","date_gmt":"2010-09-28T01:14:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=257"},"modified":"2010-09-27T20:53:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-28T03:53:46","slug":"superman-and-a-few-convenient-half-truths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/?p=257","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Superman&#8221; and a Few Convenient Half-Truths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/toped.tiff\"><img class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-258\" title=\"toped\" src=\"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/toped.tiff\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Waiting for Superman <\/em>opens in theaters in L.A. and New York this week and goes nationwide next week. \u00a0It&#8217;s a powerful film that will move those who see it, and it is ushering in a media blitz about education. NBC and CBS have announced new education programs. \u00a0<em>The Huffington Post<\/em>, for which I occasionally write, is planning expanded education coverage starting next week.<\/p>\n<p>But under the emotion, <em>Superman <\/em>is loaded with hubris, B-grade Western movie moralizing, and some dangerously shallow policy analysis. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/toped.svefoundation.org\/2010\/09\/26\/supermans-half-truths-can-move-you-to-tears\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+TheEducatedGuess+%28SVEF+Blog+-+Thoughts+On+Public+Education+%28TOP-Ed%29%29\" target=\"_blank\">My review for John Fensterwald&#8217;s new site, Thoughts on Public Education.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Waiting for Superman opens in theaters in L.A. and New York this week and goes nationwide next week. \u00a0It&#8217;s a powerful film that will move those who see it, and it is ushering in a media blitz about education. NBC and CBS have announced new education programs. \u00a0The Huffington Post, for which I occasionally write, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=257"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257\/revisions\/264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/charlestkerchner.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}