A few weeks ago I watched a movie on YouTube called Waiting for Superman. It was very interesting. I particularly liked this clip: I entered a master's program in education at the University of Colorado 13 years ago. It was a program that was aimed specifically at preparing teachers for urban schools. We were volunteering at an urban elementary school from the beginning and substitute teaching on our days off. I saw first hand the struggles of teaching at urban schools. The problems and struggles were very real. Transience was a huge one. Behavioral issues. Lack of parent support. Lack of curriculum resources. We were told from day one of our program to begin building our classroom library. We didn't expect to have books in our classrooms--we were to BE the books. We gathered resources and tackled the state standards to figure out what we needed to teach. After I watched Waiting for Superman, I was cu...