That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. I think he wants to do the right thing. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. I'm joking. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. The film also examines teacher's unions. What were the results of the kids who came in and were about to graduate this June, late May, what is the change that has happened with these children? WebWaiting For Superman (871) 7.4 1 h 51 min 2010 X-Ray PG The lives of five Harlem and Bronx families in the high stakes lottery for access to New York City's best charter You know, in Washington, D.C., under Mayor Fenty who arguably I think is the most courageous politician we have on these education reform issues, we did everything, arguably, that people wanted to see. NAKIA: She felt it wasn't fair that other children were being picked and she was just as smart as they were and why not her. And the idea that we now can do it means that we have a very moment right now to say let's take those things, let's take those ingredients and bring them into mainstream schools. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. The issue is, and we saw it and heard it in the town hall today a lot, we need to have instruments like they do in every other business to effectively judge and assess teachers. It's about those kids. We have to take ownership. CANADA: The thing I think Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg have done, they really looked for people to come into the city who had a proven track record. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. /T1_0 52 0 R Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. SCARBOROUGH: Right. Geoffrey Canada has done it. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. WEINGARTEN: Im just -- that's why there was a cap from the early -- SCARBOROUGH: We have a lot of people that want get involved here. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. An examination of the current state of education in America today. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. Wouldn't that have been better? Thank you for joining us. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. It was not simply about education. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." /Properties << 3 0 obj First, I loved that town hall today. TRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: KENNY: Now studying Shakespeare, passing the regions in physics, passing the regions in chemistry, 100 percent in U.S. history across the board, all of them are going to go to college. >> You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. Ht6R*bs7n& We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." And I was hurt. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. << UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. /Font << And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. Is there any give here? No one wants lousy teachers. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. << BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. "Geraldo at Large." /TT0 48 0 R They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. It reveals that the two major problems So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. People couldn't believe you could do it. We're going to lose our nation. But I do think though Davis even though we may disagree there wasn't a public school or a public school teacher that was pictured in this film, people have done amazing jobs. 4,789 Views. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. RHEE: I'm just wondering, if the AFT was putting a million dollars into mayoral campaigns all across the country just based on who the teachers liked, I would buy that argument. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. It starts with teachers becoming the very best, leaders removing the barriers of change, neighbors committed to their school, you willing to act (Guggenheim 1:45:05-1:45:28). Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. I have a good feeling about this. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. What did you learn? Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. That's why -- SCARBOROUGH: To John's point, though -- WEINGARTEN: So we never -- SCARBOROUGH: Unions fought like hell against these successful charter schools being able to expand in New York State. That's the first thing. [17] The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn praised the film in an op-ed piece, calling it a "stunning liberal expos of a system that consigns American children who most need a decent education to our most destructive public schools. I've been amazed by what's possible. endobj Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools (the district with some of the worst-performing students at the time), is shown attempting to take on the union agreements that teachers are bound to, but suffers a backlash from the unions and the teachers themselves. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? >> The bottom line is, you cannot say that you support removing ineffective teachers when then I fire ineffective teachers and you slap me with lawsuits and you slap me with the grievances. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. The issue is we have to all do this together with good contracts, with all of us on the same side, getting to help good teachers, getting supportive principals, getting a curriculum and the wrap-around services that Geoff does that cradle to college service. How do you explain that to a child? We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. Fox News. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. SCARBOROUGH: First and foremost -- LEGEND: If we care about justice, if we care about equality in this country, we have to care about fixing education. The film shows how Geoffrey Canadas solution to this problem was to create charter schools that would give children and their parents more options within the public school system and would hopefully raise academic performance, decrease dropout rates, andincrease the number of students who attend college. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. That's amazing. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? Davis, I want to go to you on this one. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. "waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua" By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. Explain to me how that is good for children. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. >> MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. /GS0 47 0 R Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. "[9] Scott Bowles of USA Today lauded the film for its focus on the students: "it's hard to deny the power of Guggenheim's lingering shots on these children. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /MC0 28 0 R Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. /GS0 18 0 R Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. These are our communities. "[12] The Hollywood Reporter focused on Geoffrey Canada's performance as "both the most inspiring and a consistently entertaining speaker," while also noting it "isn't exhaustive in its critique. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. /Filter /FlateDecode You have to live in the district. /Count 5 CNN.com - Transcripts /Parent 1 0 R David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to Waiting for 'Superman GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. National Assessment of Educational Progress, Bill Gates Goes to Sundance, Offers an Education, "How Davis Guggenheim's Documentary 'Waiting for "Superman"' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate -- New York Magazine - Nymag", "Waiting for Superman Movie Reviews, Pictures", "How did 'Waiting for 'Superman's' ' Davis Guggenheim become the right wing's favorite liberal filmmaker? One of the things we were thinking about, we were covering songs from the civil rights era, from the '60s and '70s and people who fought for justice and equality. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. 10 0 obj That youre not going to look American with our 15,000 school system and say we're going to charter them, that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. We love hard-working teachers. It matters who your local representative is. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. 2 0 obj /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. But do you think Michelle Rhee was trying to improve the performance of the teachers in her district, was she trying to make the schools better? The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. >> Charter schools are public schools, public dollars, public school children and to talk about them as if they are not public schools, I think does a disservice to that movement. After half a year of teaching, I talked to her yesterday, she had brought her kids a year -- more than a year and a half ahead. 5 0 obj WebWaiting For "Superman" has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a KENNY: Right. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. schools. Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) | Watch Free Documentaries Online BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. And we need to have good evaluation systems. /Parent 1 0 R And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. [31] Ravitch served as a board member with the NAEP and says that "the NAEP doesn't measure performance in terms of grade-level achievement," as claimed in the film, but only as "advanced," "proficient," and "basic." /Length 866 "[20], The film also received negative criticism. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. >> >> And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. SCARBOROUGH: Right. It affects good teachers, too. SCARBOROUGH: You also told me that there was a split in the civil rights community, that older members of the civil rights community sometimes fought younger members of the civil rights community who were reformers. What have you been able to do with them? This is a documentary about our failing education system and the tears we saw in this room are about our children and how our schools are leaving them behind. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. Sept. 23, 2010. Why? /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] It's a random selection. >> /Parent 1 0 R BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. When you put a face on this issue, as we talk about the details of it, that's the thing I keep saying to myself, let's not forget as we argue and discuss and learn about this, let's not forget the kids. Ravitch said that "cheating, teaching to bad tests, institutionalized fraud, dumbing down of tests, and a narrowed curriculum" were the true outcomes of Rhee's tenure in D.C. Because I seen what you do, Ive seen what Deborah Kinney has done, Ive seen what a lot of people have done out there and it seems to me, the model is find an extraordinary person, put them in a school, let them run that school. JOHN LEGEND, SONGWRITER: Well, it's an interesting story because I was making this album "Wake-Up." WebGenre: Documentary Waiting for 'Superman' Screenplay Edit Buy Year: 2010 4,775 Views Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me As he follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, Guggenheim undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable problems. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. This scene is an important one because it highlights how the acceptance of students into charter schools is determined by the luck of the draw and how some students are not able to enter into the public school of their choice solely because luck was not on their side. WEINGARTEN: Yes. endstream UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? SCARBOROUGH: Okay. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. RHEE: Yes, that's right. /Contents 36 0 R IE 11 is not supported. Waiting for "Superman" streaming: where to watch online? I love teachers. >> /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. >> /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CANADA: Sure. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. The site's consensus states: "Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for "Superman" is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. One of the reasons for the high test scores, writes Ravitch, is that many charter schools expel low-performing students to bring up their average scores. Because we do understand if we're going to fix this problem, we're going to have to figure out how to get you guys together and make this work. BRZEZINSKI: All right. CANADA: There are two things. /Resources << Seventy-eight percent of them, this is not our survey, this was their survey, said a union was absolutely essential to them to try and stop school politics or principal abuses. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. /Font << But as long as we try to pretend that all teachers are the same, and that there are not great teachers and not so great teachers, then we are never going to be able to solve the problems. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. LESTE BELL, DAISYS TEACHER: She chose her college and she wrote a letter to the admissions and asking them to allow her to attend their college. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. You all have your numbers, right? I want to talk about New York for one second. The fact that there are currently not enough spaces in American schools should also be viewed as one of the primary factors defining their failure to meet the needs of students (Guggenheim). I want the system to be better. Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present, an undergraduate course with Professor Jack Dougherty at Trinity College, Hartford CT. David GuggenheimsWaiting for Supermanlooks at how theAmerican public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to solve this problem. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. [37] It criticizes some public figures featured in Waiting for "Superman", proposes different policies to improve education in the United States and counters the position taken by Guggenheim. And it started to haunt me, the idea that kids in my own neighborhood, and I live in a pretty good neighborhood, aren't getting what my kids have. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. Thank you so much. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. Superman Movie LEGEND: We need to be clear, you know, sometimes it sounds like everybody is on the same team up here because we all sound like we agree. /Resources << /Type /Catalog I was really tired. One of the most disheartening moments of the movie for me is when you were driving away from the meeting, your meeting, with the teachers, and it just showed your face. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. DAISYS FATHER: Come on, Daisy, cross your fingers. 7 0 obj We'll hear from the audience as well. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. Film. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. There are winners and losers. Connecticut and Hartford education policy resources, Creating a Dual-Language Magnet School for Hartford Region, Sources on Trinity student protests since 2007, Jack Dougherty and Trinity College Educ 300 students, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, An Uncommon Critique: How A Charter Networks Success Safeguards Student Experiences, The Evolution of Gender Inequality At Trinity College: A Study Through Different Publications, Higher Education for Dreamers After the Failed DREAM Act. /T1_0 24 0 R It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. Feb 22, 2013. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of education is there's no turning back on reform in education in Washington, D.C. Our union is committed to it. PG. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. "[23], Author and academic Rick Ayers lambasted the accuracy of the film, describing it as "a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions" and criticizing its focus on standardized testing. Let me answer your question first. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? /Rotate 0 Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. You don't have all sorts of external rules. Nakia joins us here tonight. 6 0 obj And the city of Indianapolis said you're the most effective ninth grade reading teacher in our city and we're going to give you a great reward, five days later they had to fire her because the contract said she's the youngest teacher and she has to go Now, there's no one -- bad person in the process. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. /Contents [ 39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R ] WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. Cross your fingers. If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. >> Or it can't be done. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) But I think that's false. Waiting for Superman (2010) - Plot - IMDb I went up to a school up there. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? The union leaderships could take this on as a platform and say this is something we're going to commit to and give our membership behind this so we can show progress in taking on these issues. I think we all need to take more responsibility. Watch Waiting For Superman | Prime Video - amazon.com /T1_1 20 0 R Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. Things such as the ease in which a public school teacher achieves tenure, the inability to fire a teacher who is tenured, and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers are shown to affect the educational environment. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. Ravitch also writes that many charter schools are involved in "unsavory real estate deals" [31], In 2011, many news media reported on a testing score "cheating scandal" at Rhee's schools, because the test answer sheets contained a suspiciously high number of erasures that changed wrong answers to right answers. Andrew O'Hehir of Salon wrote a negative review of the film, writing that while there's "a great deal that's appealing," there's also "as much in this movie that is downright baffling. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. I said I don't want to go up. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] Many of them. I actually have teachers in my family who really think is this is a terrific movie because it exposes for them how complicated it is, how important it is to get great teachers in the classroom and what a difference they can make. WebFILM SUMMARY With passion and urgency, WAITING FOR SUPERMAN advocates for the educational welfare of Americas children in a public school system that is severely WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, Most of them. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. Didn't get an answer on that. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. These students range in How do you get past that? WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? /T1_0 24 0 R Why is that? We need to do a lot more of what Debbie Kenny is doing in that school but we need to do whats going on in lots and lots and lots of public schools because at the end of the day, every single teacher I know wants to make a difference in the lives of kids. Why did you pick this topic? /ExtGState << This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [32][33][34][35][36], A teacher-backed group called the Grassroots Education Movement produced a rebuttal documentary titled The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, which was released in 2011. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. "[30], Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, similarly criticizes the film's lack of accuracy. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. WEINGARTEN: No one, you know, teachers in at least our union would be the first to tell you, we rail against this system in some ways as much as Geoff and Michelle. << "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We increased attendance rates. [15] Deborah Kenny, CEO and founder of the Harlem Village Academies, made positive reference to the film in a The Wall Street Journal op-ed piece about education reform.
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