McDaniel College and Carroll Arts Center Screens WAITING FOR SUPERMAN

McDaniel College and the Carroll Arts Center will co-host Schools for Education Evolution town hall discussion, including a free screening of the critically acclaimed documentary "Waiting for 'Superman'," at 6 p.m. April 5 at the Carroll Arts Center, 91 W. Main St., Westminster.

The event is free and open to the public. For information, call 410-857-2290.

A reception will begin at 6 p.m. The film - which explores the shortcomings of the American public educational system by following several students clamoring for opportunities in better schools - will begin at 7 p.m., with an introduction by McDaniel President Roger N. Casey.

Audience members will have the opportunity to engage in a discussion forum after the film with noted local and national education leaders Eric Adler, founder and chief executive officer of the SEED Foundation Inc., an organization devoted to bringing outstanding educational opportunities to underserved communities; Connie Unseld, founder and director of Unselds School, a Baltimore private school for infants through eighth-grade; Stephen Guthrie, superintendent of Carroll County Public Schools; and Roxanna Harlow, executive director of Higher Learning Inc., a nonprofit educational program based in Westminster for children with little access to the social, cultural and economic resources critical to academic and life success. Harlow is a former associate professor of Sociology at McDaniel College. Unseld is a member of McDaniel College's Board of Trustees.

"Waiting for 'Superman,'" directed by Davis Guggenheim, received the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, as well as Best Documentary Feature at the Critics' Choice movie awards. Guggenheim also directed "The First Year," a documentary that chronicled the daily struggles of several freshmen California public school teachers.