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"Waiting for 'Superman' " is the new documentar y by Academy Award winning director Davis Guggenheim .  He won an Oscar for "An Inconvenie nt Truth," about global warming. This time, Guggenheim sounds the alarm about the decline of public education in the United States. According to the film, among 30 developed countries, the US ranks 25th in math and 21st in science. American students have fallen behind in almost every category except one: kids from the U.S.A. rank number one in confidence . Guggenheim focuses on five inner city kids who attend underperfo rming schools. They dream of getting into better schools. But the film suggests it's not easy. They literally have to win the lottery, the school lottery.