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. BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. << And it's just -- it changes your perspective. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? 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. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /GS1 17 0 R RHEE: I do. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. The attendance and the schools itself. That means politically get involved. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. endobj But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". 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. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. 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 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] You went into the lottery system for your daughter. >> Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth The superintendent wants her to say. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. WEINGARTEN: Yes. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. Why not? Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. These people are the ones making the decisions. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. After half a year of teaching, I talked to her yesterday, she had brought her kids a year -- more than a year and a half ahead. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. << We love good teachers. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? << SCARBOROUGH: All right. It's not about charter schools. First, I loved that town hall today. /Filter /FlateDecode The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. /Resources << >> 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. KENNY: Now studying Shakespeare, passing the regions in physics, passing the regions in chemistry, 100 percent in U.S. history across the board, all of them are going to go to college. >> SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. 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. [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. 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 SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? 5 0 obj I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. BRZEZINSKI: All right. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. WebSummaries. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us /GS0 18 0 R Take a look. 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. /Font << We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. I know they are. John, tell us how you got involved in this. We increased attendance rates. I was really tired. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. "[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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Type /Pages 10 0 obj /MC0 62 0 R /ExtGState << Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. >> Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. << And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. Be the first to contribute. 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. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. SCARBOROUGH: And you also, your movie talks about how what's happening in some of these schools is demolished a lie, a bigoted lie that some kids are incapable of learning. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. Waiting for Superman. /T1_0 52 0 R BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. /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 ] In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! I get why that's good for the adults. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. 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. Many of them. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu %PDF-1.3 "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. 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. We have to go to break right now. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. /Rotate 0 3 0 obj You all have your numbers, right? Why is that such a frightening concept? I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. [31] Ravitch served as a board member with the NAEP and says that "the NAEP doesn't measure performance in terms of grade-level achievement," as claimed in the film, but only as "advanced," "proficient," and "basic." << And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. We have to go to break. The documentary follows 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. You know that process has to be fixed. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. It reveals that the two major problems /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. DEBORAH KENNY, HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY: Well its what we're doing and a lot of the schools around the country are doing when they're given the freedom, which is what the charter gives you to accomplish these results. An examination of the current state of education in America today. A teacher wants to stay. We increased graduation rates. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. Wouldn't that have been better? RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. 1 0 obj I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. [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. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. >> 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 [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. 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. These are your schools, your communities. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. We should let Randi respond. /MC0 34 0 R 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. /MC0 37 0 R Do you think it has characterized you fairly? Didn't get an answer on that. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. We need to have great curriculum. >> I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. 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. Film. 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. It was not simply about education. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. 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. I want the system to be better. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. >> 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. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. [31] (The film says, however, that it is focusing on the one in five superior charter schools, or close to 17%, that do outperform public schools.) 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. stream /ExtGState << They'll talk about this issue. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? When you have kids from Harlem going there with first grade reading proficiency and science proficiency and they leave three years later with 100 percent proficiency, it just -- at some point it becomes a moral issue. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. You believe it. The film will focus on the times when Superman is younger, with an emphasis on how he balances his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing . 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. An examination of the current state of education in America today. 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. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. /Parent 1 0 R 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. "[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. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. You know, in Washington, D.C., under Mayor Fenty who arguably I think is the most courageous politician we have on these education reform issues, we did everything, arguably, that people wanted to see. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? endstream BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. stream I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. "[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. "[13] Variety characterized the film's production quality as "deserving every superlative" and felt that "the film is never less than buoyant, thanks largely to the dedicated and effective teachers on whom Guggenheim focuses. KENNY: Right. By Stephen Holden. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose stories make up the engrossing foundation of WAITING FOR SUPERMAN. >> /Properties << I'm feeling it. 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. 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. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. What did you learn? The film shows how Geoffrey Canadas solution to this problem was to create charter schools that would give children and their parents more options within the public school system and would hopefully raise academic performance, decrease dropout rates, andincrease the number of students who attend college. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. SCARBOROUGH: Right. Guggenheim, Davis. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. Geoffrey Canada. We have to take ownership. What's amazing about these tears, I knew about the film for months and just knowing the system, I knew how it was going to end. Ravitch says that a study by Stanford University economist Margaret Raymond of 5000 charter schools found that only 17% are superior in math test performance to a matched public school, and many perform badly, casting doubt on the film's claim that privately managed charter schools are the solution to bad public schools. What's going on here? I know, but you didn't have enough money. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. /Rotate 0 /Properties << You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. 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. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony.