"Waiting for Superman" (WfS), the much hyped movie on Education reform, is directed by Davis Guggenheim, who also directed "Inconvenient Truth". Guess who produced it? Details below fold.
WfS was produced in association with Walden Media, owned by Philip Anschutz. Who is Philip Anschutz? A wingnut who funded Discovery Institute based in Seattle. If that doesn't ring a bell, here we go :
Anschutz is also involved with the Discovery Institute, a "think-tank" he funds in Seattle which criticises the theory of evolution and argues for the involvement of a "supernatural" actor in the development of living things. Critics accuse it of offering little more than a new spin on creationism, and the institute was recently caught up in a notorious lawsuit about the teaching of creationism in schools.
http://www.independent.co.uk/...
The article (dating back to 2006) lists quite a few inconvenient truths about Anschutz (a very private person) and his undertakings . Funding anti-gay initiatives is one of them.He has donated large sums to Colorado for Family Values, an overtly anti-gay organisation.
An article in the newspaper owned by Anschutz says this about WfS:
Guggenheim's goal is to do for public schools what his 2006 "An Inconvenient Truth" aimed to do for the environment -- bring the severity of the problems to the attention of Americans not forced to deal with them.
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/...
Get that? Guggenheim, the guy guy who did a movie on scientifically-accepted global warming has now teamed up with a fella who doesn't believe in Evolution and promotes the anti-science idea that is creationism !!! All in the name of education deform err... reform. Talk about Inconvenient Truth. Want some dose of Creationism with that education reform ?
Or, their "common ground" is because the corporate education deform "principles" are not scientifically proven , just like Creationism is anti-science?
H/T Leonie Haimson for the tidbit on which this diary is based. Her article itself is worthy reading.