>> endobj Explain to me how that is good for children. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. /MC0 31 0 R 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. /T1_1 20 0 R "[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. /T1_1 20 0 R BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. Go. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. << /T1_0 24 0 R When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. 3 0 obj In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. Why is that such a frightening concept? WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. Waiting for Superman BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. We increased attendance rates. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. >> 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. 1h 51m. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. We'll be right back. /ExtGState << Waiting for "Superman RHEE: Heres the thing. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. /Rotate 0 We even tolerate mediocre teachers. I want to talk about New York for one second. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. The movie's major villains are the National We increased student achievement levels. /Parent 1 0 R /Type /Page Superman Movie It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. Are you feeling agreement? >> 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. << One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the 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. 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. /T1_0 24 0 R /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. You know that process has to be fixed. "[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. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. /Resources << Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /T1_0 52 0 R UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. Michelle and I love great teachers. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. Is there any give here? This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. It matters who your local representative is. /MC0 62 0 R Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present, an undergraduate course with Professor Jack Dougherty at Trinity College, Hartford CT. David GuggenheimsWaiting for Supermanlooks at how theAmerican public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to solve this problem. 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. /ExtGState << I think the question about whether school reform can continue at as an aggressive rate under him is whether hes going to be able to stand up to the fact that SCARBOROUGH: Let me ask you this Michelle. Most of them. We actually have to change the political environment. IE 11 is not supported. /Properties << I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> I'm just wondering. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. LEGEND: Yes. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] They'll talk about this issue. BRZEZINSKI: All right. I know they are. WebSynopsis. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Font << I said I don't want to go up. BRZEZINSKI: No. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. 2 0 obj /MC0 34 0 R Geoffrey Canada has done it. "waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua" Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. And that means get involved. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. >> SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. BRZEZINSKI: All right. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. It was about a whole range of other issues. << 8 0 obj I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. /Type /Pages We're not attacking teachers. 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). [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. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. Many of them. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? I have a good feeling about this. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. 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. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. >> schools. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. Ht6R*bs7n& /Resources << NAKIA: Shes 7 now. The film shows how the audience members, filled with prospective students and their families, all sit with apprehensive looks on their faces as they anxiously listen to the names and numbers of the children who are called and are therefore accepted into the charter school by luck of the draw. 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? Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. 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. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] 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. SCARBOROUGH: Right. << RHEE: Thats correct. Come on out. I think if we actually got to what constitutes a good teacher and had that kind of standard we'd all be in the same place on that and there are about 50 or 60 districts right now, I made a proposal in January about how to overhaul evaluation. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. 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 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. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. Waiting for 'Superman But you did. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. The goal of the film is to create a successful public education system filled with great schoolsthat leave no child behind, andit calls for reform from all of usin order to reach that goal. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN 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. I cry for him sometimes. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. [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." /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) "[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. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. 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 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. Because we talked to Randi before. >> Andrew O'Hehir of Salon wrote a negative review of the film, writing that while there's "a great deal that's appealing," there's also "as much in this movie that is downright baffling. I was really tired. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. /Rotate 0 Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. /Font << And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. WEINGARTEN: Yes. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. >> SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. It is a revolution. /ExtGState << 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. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. Trying to hide the fact that I had been balling my eyes out, I said I can't -- I knew how this was going to end and I was still crying. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? Thanks to all of our guests. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. 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. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. 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We love good teachers. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. What happened there? (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. Things such as the ease in which a public school teacher achieves tenure, the inability to fire a teacher who is tenured, and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers are shown to affect the educational environment. 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: What have you learned since getting involved? BRZEZINSKI: Okay. 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? SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. We need to do a lot more of what Debbie Kenny is doing in that school but we need to do whats going on in lots and lots and lots of public schools because at the end of the day, every single teacher I know wants to make a difference in the lives of kids. [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. "[21] Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice was critical of the film for not including enough details of outlying socioeconomic issues, writing, "macroeconomic responses to Guggenheim's querygo unaddressed in Waiting for "Superman," which points out the vast disparity in resources for inner-city versus suburban schools only to ignore them. 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. Watch Waiting For Superman | Prime Video - amazon.com