A new documentary by Oscar-winning filmmaker Davis Guggenheim (who made An Inconvenient Truth and It Might Get Loud) is promising to ask some tough questions about America’s schools.  According to the film’s website, Guggenheim “follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth…Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying drop-out factories and academic sinkholes, methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems.”

A friend of mine who attended an advance screening of the film tells me that it’s excellent.  Here’s a trailer:

There’s no guarantee that the movie will play in Nortwest Arkansas when it opens this fall, but taking the pledge below surely couldn’t hurt.