The Cartel
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  • Summary: The Cartel shows us our educational system like we've never seen it before. Behind every dropout factory, we discover, lurks a powerful, entrenched, and self-serving cartel. But The Cartel doesn't just describe the problem. Balancing local storylines against interviews with education experts such as Clint Bolick (former president of Alliance for School Choice), Gerard Robinson (president of Black Alliance for Educational Options), and Chester Finn (president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute), The Cartel explores what dedicated parents, committed teachers, clear-eyed officials, and tireless reformers are doing to make our schools better for our kids. (Moving Picture Institute)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 7 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 14
  3. Negative: 2 out of 14
  1. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Kyle Smith
    88
    Few documentaries have covered such an important matter so convincingly and with such clarity. When it comes to public education, we are all New Jerseyans.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    80
    A brisk, incisive and mind-boggling -- no other phrase will work -- exposé of his native New Jersey's public education system.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Wesley Morris
    50
    Actually, everything in Bowdon’s rant about America’s woeful public school system is important, including Bowdon.
  4. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Amy Biancolli
    25
    It's all talking heads, clanging music, substandard graphics, long scans of Web-page headlines and Bowdon's heavily cadenced voiceovers.

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