Andrea Mitchell Hosts Bob Compton on MSNBC

Education Filmmaker Interviewed on MSNBC

Waiting For Superman Adds Awareness to Education Documentaries

 

Washington, DC – 10/12/10 – Veteran NBC News Correspondent Andrea Mitchell recently interviewed documentary filmmaker Robert A. Compton on her MSNBC show. The release of Waiting For Superman has raised interest in the national media for other documentaries about education and education reform. 

Compton is executive producer of the film Two Million Minutes, a look at high school education around the world. He had been on Mitchell’s panel of experts the previous week during the NBC News event – Education Nation.

“Education reform continues to gain momentum in the public dialog,” said Compton, “It is gratifying that top news correspondents, such as Andrea Mitchell, are giving increasing attention to the serious decline of U.S. K-12 education.”

In addition to Two Million Minutes, Compton has produced The 21^st Century Solution – a film on charter schools - and A Right Denied – with education reform activist Whitney Tilson.

“I’m compelled to make films about global education out of my deep desire to help our children be competitive in the 21^st century,” stated Compton. “As a nation, we simply must raise our K-12 education to globally competitive levels. Otherwise, this generation of young people will be the first in U.S. history to have a lower standard of living than the previous generation.”

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It is time that educators take it upon themselves to take measures to improve the academic achievement of all students. The days of a stagnant content curriculum are over. We must prepare our students for the 21st century workplace by teaching specific skills.