8 0 obj If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. /ExtGState << WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. 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. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. We increased student achievement levels. No one wants lousy teachers. CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. Waiting for 'Superman Its so interesting you say that because Mika, Chris, our EP, myself, everybody thats seen this movie says first of all, they break down and cry at the end of this movie and then when they go home and they look at their children, children who can go to really great schools, they look at their own children differently. I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. 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 like to follow the evidence. The filmmakers deliberately kept the camera on certain students and their families, like Nakia and Bianca, in order to show how those who did not get into charter schools felt extremely disappointed and emotional because they had hoped to be accepted into a schoolthat would not fail them. stream There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. /GS0 18 0 R Why is that? 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. Yes, first or second grade skills. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. Why? WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT SCARBOROUGH: What we hear, Randi, morning after morning after morning from progressives, from conservatives, from Republicans, from Democrats, from independents, seems to be the same thing. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. >> RHEE: I don't think they are. 7 0 obj BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? BRZEZINSKI: Okay. Waiting for "Superman," Davis Guggenheim's edifying and heartbreaking new documentary, says that our future depends on good teachers and that the coddling of bad teachers by their powerful unions virtually ensures mediocrity, at best, in both teachers and the students in their care. Yes, there should be fairness. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. 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You said, you still cry every time you see it. And that is a concept that is so necessary. This is our country. Be the first to contribute. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. And while our guests enter the stage, let's show you a little clip of the movie, because "Waiting For Superman" is about our system, but what really gets to you in this movie is the individual stories of each child. Why 'Waiting For Superman' Didn't Get An Oscar Nod : NPR 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] When I see from my own experience as a school teach are for six years when evaluations didn't work and less than 20 percent of them think that evaluations work right now. And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. SCARBOROUGH: Right. I've never seen anything like it in my life. >> SCARBOROUGH: They can't. [30] In Ayers' view, the "corporate powerhouses and the ideological opponents of all things public" have employed the film to "break the teacher's unions and to privatize education," while driving teachers' wages even lower and running "schools like little corporations. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. /Font << SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? We're just saying --. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. endobj RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) [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.". It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. 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. "[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. 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. >> /Resources << MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. And it says that if all of us are actually committed to fixing this, we will follow the evidence of what works, follow it, be innovative, be creative but follow the evidence of what works and we will all work together to fix this so that every single child has access to a great public education, not by chance, not by privilege but by right. 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. A teacher wants to stay. Now it's happening in Houston. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. /T1_1 24 0 R We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. Take a look. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! 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. endobj You fought the law and the law won. /Im0 19 0 R LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. << CANADA: Can I just tell you this? [2] 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. /GS0 18 0 R << /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. >> Watch Waiting For Superman | Prime Video - amazon.com It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. 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. We're in a crisis. She was assigned in January. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's about places that have failed for 30, 40, 50 years, we can't do the same thing this year that we did last year. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av GUGGENHEIM: The dream of making a movie like this is conversations just like this, the fact that you and NBC and Viacom and Paramount and Get School bring a movie to the table and let people in this room have a real conversation about to fix our schools is essential. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." I said I don't want to go up. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. /Pages 1 0 R So the question is, what's New York City doing right? "[19] Forbes' Melik Kaylan similarly liked the film, writing, "I urge you all to drop everything and go see the documentary Waiting For "Superman" at the earliest opportunity. /T1_0 20 0 R "[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. We're not attacking teachers. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. There are core values we have to have. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. 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. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. /Type /Catalog 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. IE 11 is not supported. Waiting for "Superman Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. /Rotate 0 And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. >> SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. Why not? WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. 1h 51m. >> The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. SCARBOROUGH: All right. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. WEINGARTEN: Yes. (soundbite of film, "big george foreman: the miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world") KHRIS DAVIS: (As George Foreman) Last time they saw me, I looked like Superman. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. It affects good teachers, too. We actually have to change the political environment. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. We all have to move off self-interest. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Filter /FlateDecode In fact you come off quite badly. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. Waiting for Superman Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. This documentary follows a handful of promising kids through a system that inhibits, rather than encourages, academic growth, and undertakes an exhaustive review of public education, surveying "drop-out factories" and "academic sinkholes," methodically dissecting the system and its seemingly intractable /Type /Page /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /GS0 18 0 R 9 0 obj But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. By the nature of who my family is. /Type /Page A reminder for everyone, coming up right after this program, MSNBC will re-air that teacher town hall that was hosted by Brian Williams, that's from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time, right here on MSNBC. SCARBOROUGH: Right. Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. /T1_0 24 0 R Superman Movie SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. /Properties << We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. /Resources << Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? waiting for superman movie transcript (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. John, tell us how you got involved in this. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. I support public schools. Didn't get an answer on that. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. 2 0 obj Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. RHEE: Heres the thing. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. /Filter /FlateDecode /Parent 1 0 R >> Waiting for 'Superman' Quotes DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. Thanks to all of our guests. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. 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. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. The answer is no. How do you explain that to a child? And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. >> >> We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. The documentary follows Davis, god bless you. /Length 868 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. I'm feeling it. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] << Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Education in Waiting for Superman Documentary WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. CANADA: There are two things. >> We spruced up -- modernized the building. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. I want to say something about what John just said. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. And we need to have good evaluation systems. 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 << You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. CANADA: Well you know what? Web2010. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. Since charter schools do not operate with the same restrictions as public institutions, they are depicted as having a more experimental approach to educating students. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. I think we all need to take more responsibility. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. 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 They'll talk about this issue. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. 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. Feb 22, 2013. SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. We'll come back and continue this. My kids have won the lottery. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? /MC0 31 0 R /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 ] The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. /Properties << 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. 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. These students range in What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? endobj /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. By showing its audience that even charter schools close their doors to some students, which them forces these students to attendfailing public schools, the video illustrates howthere are still flaws to the American public school system and challenges that need to be addressed. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. The film also examines teacher's unions.

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