The Lottery – Another Great Education Documentary

While Waiting for Superman is enjoying a lot of publicity, there is another documentary making the rounds worth paying attention to called The Lottery. It follows four families and their desire to simply get a good education for their children. Here is a clip:

Some review blurbs:

“A new documentary by a 27-year-old filmmaker could change the national debate about public education.”
– The Wall Street Journal

“This heartbreaking documentary offers an opinionated, powerful and potentially controversial take on the crisis of public education in the U.S.”
– New York Magazine Critics’ Pick

“‚ÄôThe Lottery‚Äô will do for charter schools what ‚ÄòAn Inconvenient Truth‚Äô did for the environment.”
– New York Daily News