It's a random selection. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. %PDF-1.3 I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. There's a cap in New York State because ultimately when George Pataki and I and others started to work on having charter schools in this state, there was an issue in terms of the economics and what would happen with moneys in terms of other districts. We're turning to you now. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. Be the first to contribute. stream SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. 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 /GS0 47 0 R I don't care what I have to do, I don't care how many jobs I have to obtain but she will go to college. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. In this incredible movie, "Waiting For Superman," Davis Guggenheim introduces to us some of the heroic parents who struggle to provide a better future for their children. If you look at what the Kipp schools have done or the uncommon schools, they've been able to replicate this model over and over. >> If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. 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. /MC0 31 0 R We'll hear from the audience as well. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. By the nature of who my family is. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. NAKIA: Yes. 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. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. /Parent 1 0 R I said I don't want to go up. >> I'm joking. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. Randi said something that was fascinating. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. /T1_1 20 0 R The principal wants her to stay. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. Take a look. endobj Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. But, Mondello >> " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 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. 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. Yes, there should be fairness. >> We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. /Contents [ 9 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R ] It was about a whole range of other issues. 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. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. JOHN LEGEND, SONGWRITER: Well, it's an interesting story because I was making this album "Wake-Up." Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. Last Friday night I watched Davis Guggenheims new documentary, Teach, which was broadcast in on CBS.Guggenheim, you may recall, is the filmmaker who brought us Waiting For Superman, the shameless propaganda-fest that signaled the full-on nuclear stage of the corporate-driven war on public education (also known as the Explain to me how that is good for children. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. How do you get past that? SCARBOROUGH: Okay. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. >> Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. You don't have all sorts of external rules. The superintendent wants her to say. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We spruced up -- modernized the building. /GS0 18 0 R 4,789 Views. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. Yes, first or second grade skills. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. I cry for him sometimes. 1. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? [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. The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into competitive charter schools such as KIPP LA Schools, Harlem Success Academy and Summit Preparatory Charter High School. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. >> We have to go to break. Randi we'll let you get a response in here and also, Mika, what we're going to do is figure out where everybody agrees. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. So we've got to open up this issue of innovation and we've got to make sure that in those places we allow real educators to come in and redesign this thing so it works. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. That's amazing. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. /Resources << endobj /T1_0 52 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. Guggenheim, Davis. >> We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. << Joe and I saw the movie a few days ago and we literally walked up Broadway, I think it was, in complete silence, both feeling very twisted and angry about what we had seen. 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 Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. I know they are. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. RHEE: It was actually 12 percent that were proficient in reading but he picked the better statistic because actually, only 8 percent of our children were proficient in math. [3], Geoffrey Canada describes his journey as an educator and recounts the story of his devastation when, as a child, he discovers that Superman is fictional, that "there is no one coming with enough power to save us.". stream Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. >> You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisys path to medical school begins with eighth grade algebra which she'll need to take when she moves up to Stevenson Middle School. Many of them. The filmmakers made sure to film how Nakia becomes increasingly more anxious and concerned as time passes during the lottery, but fewer spots become available and her daughters name has not been called (Guggenheim 1:32:49). 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. 1 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. It's happening in Los Angeles. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? What are your thoughts? /T1_1 20 0 R Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. schools. 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. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. RHEE: Heres the thing. 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. This is our country. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. It affects good teachers, too. I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. SCARBOROUGH: Right. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. It's must-see TV. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? 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. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. /GS0 18 0 R Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. SCARBOROUGH: Right. And that means get involved. Let's do this right now and let's look at the best contract in the nation in terms of eliminating ineffective teachers and let's make that the standard across America. 6 0 obj I'm feeling it. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. 10 0 obj >> SCARBOROUGH: All right. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] People couldn't believe you could do it. The film illustrates the problem of how American public schools are failing children, as it explicitly describes many public schools as drop-out factories, in which over 40% of students do not graduate on time. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. 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. Wouldn't that have been better? It matters who your local representative is. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. An examination of the current state of education in America today. The goal of the film is to create a successful public education system filled with great schoolsthat leave no child behind, andit calls for reform from all of usin order to reach that goal. endobj GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. I think he wants to do the right thing. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. BRZEZINSKI: You also knew that a little girl like Daisy can be a vet or a doctor or anything she wants to be if she's given the tools to do it. CANADA: Well you know what? It's shameful. /Rotate 0 We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. /T1_0 20 0 R 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. /T1_1 24 0 R Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public We should let Randi respond. It is a revolution. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. You cannot say we want more resources to go to kids when in fact in this city, Joel Klein is spilling $100 million a year to pay for teachers you saw it in the movie, who aren't actually teaching. 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. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. When they hear this back and forth, there's the sense of like, you know what, put my head in the sand, take care of my own kids because this debate has been going on for generations. [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. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the & CEO, HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: I think the real important issue for us to face as Americans is if we don't fix this, we will not remain a great country. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We'll come back and continue this. SCARBOROUGH: Were back with our panel, Michelle, one of the stunning parts of many stunning parts in this documentary, in this film, was when Davis showed the proficiency numbers state by state. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. endobj You do not come off as the hero of this movie. 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 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. 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. We need to have great curriculum. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. /GS1 17 0 R UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. I think the point of departure between Michelle and I may be that I see, just like in Finland and Singapore and other places, that we need to all actually work together, focused on instruction, focused on how we help people do the best jobs they can and then -- BRZEZINSKI: Wasnt that what she was doing? He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. BRZEZINSKI: Please help us welcome founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Washington D.C.'s school's chancellor, Michelle Rhee, American Federation of Teacher's president Randi Weingarten and filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. 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? /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. It was not simply about education. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. "[30] Lastly, Ayers writes that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized. I think we all need to take more responsibility. "[21] Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice was critical of the film for not including enough details of outlying socioeconomic issues, writing, "macroeconomic responses to Guggenheim's querygo unaddressed in Waiting for "Superman," which points out the vast disparity in resources for inner-city versus suburban schools only to ignore them. /Font << I went up to a school up there. 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. We're not attacking teachers. These are your schools, your communities. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? 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. RHEE: I don't think they are. /T1_1 57 0 R Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. Thank you for joining us. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. Take a look. /Font << 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. I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. /MC0 34 0 R Waiting for Superman.2010. endobj Waiting for 'Superman' the title refers to a Harlem educators childhood belief that a superhero would fix the problems of the ghetto won an Audience Award at That's the first thing. We're seeing all this great success in Harlem, there were forces that were trying to make sure that that couldn't be replicated on a larger scale. It reveals that the two major problems BRZEZINSKI: All right. You said, you still cry every time you see it. There are winners and losers. /Properties << Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. I want to talk about New York for one second. NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. Kids coming into middle school and fifth grade with first grade reading abilities, leaving in eighth grade with a 100 percent proficiency, outscoring kids in Scarsdale, New York.