SCARBOROUGH: Right. >> You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. "[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. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. There are core values we have to have. 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BRZEZINSKI: Okay. /Resources << So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. /T1_0 52 0 R [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. SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. >> /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. And I was hurt. I get why that's good for the adults. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. 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. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. /T1_0 24 0 R LEGEND: Yes. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? I went up to a school up there. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. /Filter /FlateDecode 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? /Font << BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. /Parent 1 0 R 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. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. Go. 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 /Contents 36 0 R You said, you still cry every time you see it. I'd like to follow up by asking you, that on "MEET THE PRESS" this morning, you said the union has taken steps to make teachers better, taken concrete steps. /Font << Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. /Rotate 0 %PDF-1.3 At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. 5 0 obj /Type /Page I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. /Font << /ExtGState << But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. Documentary. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. /ExtGState << 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. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. /ExtGState << That's not the case with all charter schools across America. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. You fought the law and the law won. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. /TT0 48 0 R >> I like to follow the evidence. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. 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. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. 1 0 obj }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} [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 amazing. 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. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? There are people who have figured out systems of improving education and the mayor was very aggressive in bringing those folk into New York City and saying to them, we're going to remove the obstacles for you all to do your work. These are your schools, your communities. SCARBOROUGH: Right. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. Why were you frightened to send her to school. I want to say something about what John just said. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? /Properties << You do not come off as the hero of this movie. And that means get involved. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. 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? NAKIA: Yes. BRZEZINSKI: All right. SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. SCARBOROUGH: Right. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. We're just saying --. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. 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. Film. How do you explain that to a child? /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 ] People -- but this room needs to get bigger. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. << "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". endobj /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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). " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 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. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] Cross your fingers. /Length 866 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. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. >> 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. [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. PG. I'm feeling it. 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. 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. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. People couldn't believe you could do it. "[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. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. It's a random selection. 10 0 obj 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. 1h 51m. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. << 3 0 obj /MC0 37 0 R Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. Yet instead of examining this critical issue objectively, the movie Waiting for "Superman" cites false statistics in their effort to scapegoat teachers, unfairly blaming them for all the failures of our urban schools. /ExtGState << One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. We love hard-working teachers. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It was not simply about education. It's happening in Los Angeles. 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: It really is. 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? SCARBOROUGH: Right. We increased student achievement levels. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. We actually have to change the political environment. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. What's going on here? 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 /Rotate 0 /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. The video explores several of the problems within the system, and tells the personal stories of several families and communities who have been impacted and disadvantaged by the broken education system. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. 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. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? It's about those kids. 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. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. It affects good teachers, too. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. What are your thoughts? And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up That's the first thing. These students range in ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. 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. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I want the system to be better. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. /Type /Page Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. These people are the ones making the decisions. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. You all have your numbers, right? BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. /Type /Page /Rotate 0 40 years later we're still fighting for equality and one of the biggest barriers to achieving quality is the fact that so many kids in our country can't get a great education. >> WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. 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. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. >> BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. The answer is no. This is our country. >> But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? Why not? 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? We're in a crisis. I know they are. 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. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. We can't have our school system running like this. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. WEINGARTEN: John. You cannot say -- you can't say, well, the problem with charter schools is they only serve some of the kids when in fact you are advocating for caps on those effective charter schools. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. 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. Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. First, I loved that town hall today. /Contents 30 0 R But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. 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).
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