CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. Because you would think that the parents of those children that Michelle was in there shaking up the system to save those children, if those parents would have rallied, but we have gotten so used to failure, we tolerate failure in places like D.C. and central Harlem and Detroit, we just tolerate that failure and we've got to say to this nation, no more. Didn't get an answer on that. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. We'll come back and continue this. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. I know they are. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. RHEE: Thats correct. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. >> I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. The attendance and the schools itself. You don't have all sorts of external rules. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. 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? I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] These people are the ones making the decisions. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. /T1_0 20 0 R We can't have our school system running like this. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. 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 SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Font << << 4,789 Views. /GS0 18 0 R 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. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. It's about those kids. endobj What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. NAKIA: I was disturbed. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. Come on out. ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. This is why. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. We're going to lose our nation. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. 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. /Properties << Web2010. CANADA: There are two things. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. 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. /Rotate 0 [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. We're turning to you now. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? You believe it, don't you, Michelle? Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. << I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. WEINGARTEN: John. Why did you pick this topic? You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. /Parent 1 0 R I think he wants to do the right thing. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. 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. /Resources << /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 ] /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. 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. 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. 9 0 obj %PDF-1.3 1. 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. And we need to have good evaluation systems. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. Why were you frightened to send her to school. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. SCARBOROUGH: If you're going to lock kids in Harlem out of that process and let a few see the light and see the -- that seems to me to be immoral. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. The answer is no. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. Waiting for Superman. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. But you did. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. So look, all of us on this stage, whether it's Geoffrey or Michelle or Davis, myself, the two of you, we all care passionately about the children. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? The movie's major villains are the National What did you learn? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. You believe it. However, the film shows how even charter schools leave some children behind, as those who are not chosen by the luck of the draw in the lottery system, are not able to attend the charter schools of their choice. Take a look. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. WEINGARTEN: Yes. How do you explain that to a child? RHEE: I don't think they are. I want to say something about what John just said. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the 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. WebSynopsis. Wouldn't that have been better? They'll talk about this issue. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. 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). /T1_0 24 0 R Take a look. We need to have great curriculum. 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 WEINGARTEN: Michelle and I may disagree on the particulars of this, but there are about 50 or 60 districts that are using the proposal that we made and ultimately we think if we do that, if we fix teacher evaluations so it's about teacher development and evaluation, we can fix this problem. [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. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. 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 /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) I love teachers. BRZEZINSKI: No. That is the problem. The only disagreement that I think our union has had in terms of the way in which things have gone, is that our folks have desperately wanted to have a voice in how to do reform. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. It was not simply about education. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. In New York City, a group of local teachers protested one of the documentary's showings, calling the film "complete nonsense", writing that "there is no teacher voice in the film. PG. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] SCARBOROUGH: All right. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. 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? BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. [31] The most substantial distortion in the film, according to Ravitch, is the film's claim that "70 percent of eighth-grade students cannot read at grade level," a misrepresentation of data from the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up 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. NAKIA: Yes. /Resources << And she thought I was crying because it's like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us.