Getting the Layperson Informed

Since education issues consume my life right now, I feel a little unsure of what the general public's familiarity is with school woes. Sure there are articles in the major news magazines all the time about one person's take on the "crisis," but it is just as easy to flip the page and skip the read. Here's a video that effectively sums up the current status of our education system, promoting the new movie that will be out next month: http://www.letsredu.com/2010/08/video-the-education-crisis-in-two-minutes/

The movie is directed by the same guy who did "An Inconvenient Truth," which I never saw, but has been cited as one of the reasons why climate change became a national priority. They say that the intention of this movie is to do the exact same thing for education. But it's true: the most important thing to do is to get the everyday voter informed.