Documentary. & 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. /Resources << Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Waiting for "Superman" premiered in the US on September 24, 2010, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, with a rolling wider release that began on October 1, 2010. 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. 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. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". Nakia joins us here tonight. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. RHEE: I do. Now it's happening in Houston. What are your thoughts? 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. It affects good teachers, too. Now, a couple of years ago, an independent group called Ed Sector actually surveyed a whole bunch of teachers and asked teachers the question about whether they needed or wanted a union. BRZEZINSKI: All right. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. WEINGARTEN: Look, what the unions actually talked about was as part of lifting the cap, as part of lifting the cap, they didn't fight against lifting the cap -- LEGEND: Yes, they did. Guggenheim, Davis. According to Waiting for Superman, from 1971 to today, America has gone from spending an average of $4,300 per student to $9,000 per student, (adjusting for inflation). It's must-see TV. /Type /Page And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. [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. stream NAKIA: Shes 7 now. /Properties << WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. NAKIA: I was disturbed. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. What's going on here? /Properties << Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? Thank you for joining us. /Font << In fact you come off quite badly. She was assigned in January. 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 /T1_1 57 0 R Ht6R*bs7n& You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. 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. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. 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. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? Come on out. /Contents 33 0 R By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. The movie's major villains are the National These are your schools, your communities. Yes, first or second grade skills. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. stream CANADA: Can I just tell you this? 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: They can't. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. And that means get involved. 8 0 obj 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. And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. 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. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. And we need to have good evaluation systems. Go. endobj We have to take ownership. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. 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. 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). PG. >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. SCARBOROUGH: Randi said the teachers wanted the tools to get the job done. /MC0 37 0 R I cry for him sometimes. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. /Type /Page UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. 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. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. I have a good feeling about this. LEGEND: Yes. SCARBOROUGH: Right. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. << endobj These are our communities. /Contents 30 0 R I know they are. You fought the law and the law won. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. /Type /Page That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." 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. 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. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. /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 answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We all have to move off self-interest. >> If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Wouldn't that have been better? BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? I want to talk about New York for one second. RHEE: Yes, that's right. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. 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. endobj He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? 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 [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. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. 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. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, It is a revolution. It's about those kids. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. But I think that's false. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. We need to have great curriculum. 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. We're not attacking teachers. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. /Font << SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. 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. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. /Length 866 Is there any give here? Explain to me how that is good for children. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. Cross your fingers. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. 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. /ExtGState << /GS1 17 0 R /T1_0 52 0 R /GS0 18 0 R UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. And I was hurt. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. 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. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I said I don't want to go up. /T1_0 24 0 R /ExtGState << And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. 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. RHEE: Thats correct. Geoffrey Canada has done it. So we're going to differentiate and we're going to recognize and reward the highest performing teachers and we're going to look at the lowest performing teachers and we're going to remove them from the system. Be the first to contribute. << As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). IE 11 is not supported. I know, but you didn't have enough money. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. 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). SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? [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. And we have to have everyone, even parents, recommitted, you know, even school officials, district heads, superintendents, unions, all of us have to move off a position of self-interest like I do with my own kids, sending them to private school, like the unions do, I think, preserving the status quo. And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. 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. You all have your numbers, right? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? "[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. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. Film. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth /XObject << Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. 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. << I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. 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. We increased graduation rates. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. I think we all have to look in the mirror and say, what have we done wrong up until now and what do we need to do better? "[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. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. I'm just wondering. We'll be right back. They do allow us to figure out what's working and we should replicate it and what's not and we should close those charter schools that arent working so that we actually develop a science in our business about what works in what kinds of environments and in what kinds of communities.
