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The Education Crisis: "The Daily Show" Version

CJ Westerberg, October 7, 2010 8:11 PM

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The Daily Show Version of "Education Nation" and "Waiting for Superman"
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An education news round-up that only Lewis Black on Jon Stewart's The Daily Show can do . . .

Black takes no prisoners with NBC's special "Education Nation" week ("a week for education, the other 51 weeks for incarceration"), charter schools  ("as long as the selection process is as public and cruel as humanly possible"), "Waiting for Superman", Tony Danza and volunteerism.  

The David Gregory (host of NBC's Meet the Press) segment is priceless. 

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