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The No Child Left Behind Act was declared in 2001 to improve the education system in the United States, but it has yet to have any meaningful results. Despite increased spending and promises from politicians, the weak public-education system routinely fails in the education of millions of children.

Waiting For Superman is a new film being shown at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, from January 21 to January 31 in Park City, Utah.  It is a documentary that highlights schools in different parts of the United States.

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim follows five promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth.  He analyses the public schools, surveying “drop-out factories” and “academic sinkholes,” looking closely at the different problems kids and their parents face.

The following is an interview with Davis about his new film:

Tags: Documentary, Public Schools, Sundance, United States