You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. We increased student achievement levels. 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. 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. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. 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. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. endobj >> A teacher wants to stay. Ht6R*bs7n& That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. [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. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] They'll talk about this issue. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu And I was hurt. An examination of the current state of education in America today. We're in a crisis. I like to follow the evidence. 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. WebSummaries. The principal wants her to stay. What's going on here? People couldn't believe you could do it. The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. >> (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. >> Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. CANADA: Well you know what? 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. endobj 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. << He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." But I think it's quite frankly a little disingenuous for the union president to stand up and say we liked what Michelle was doing, we wanted it to continue to happen, when the national AFT poured $1 million into the campaign in Washington, D.C. a million dollars in a local mayoral race you know clearly sends a message that they didn't want things to continue as they were. 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. 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. By Stephen Holden. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. These are your schools, your communities. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. "[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. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. We can't have our school system running like this. 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. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? 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. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. Guggenheim, Davis. >> We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. [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.) BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. 1 0 obj Why were you frightened to send her to school. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. 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. Or it can't be done. 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Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 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. [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. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. Waiting for Superman.2010. RHEE: I don't think they are. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. Davis, god bless you. 8 0 obj (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] endobj << BRZEZINSKI: No. Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. The issue is we have to all do this together with good contracts, with all of us on the same side, getting to help good teachers, getting supportive principals, getting a curriculum and the wrap-around services that Geoff does that cradle to college service. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. Why? You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. 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. endobj I have a good feeling about this. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN 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. >> This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? Thanks to all of our guests. Charter schools are public schools, public dollars, public school children and to talk about them as if they are not public schools, I think does a disservice to that movement. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. 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. /Type /Page You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. 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. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? CANADA: There are two things. 4,789 Views. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. /Type /Page In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] >> >> It's must-see TV. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. 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. & 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. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? >> SCARBOROUGH: It really is. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose /Resources << WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. 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. What happened there? /Contents 36 0 R Because we talked to Randi before. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? What have you been able to do with them? Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. >> 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. I went up to a school up there. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. You all have your numbers, right? /Rotate 0 Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. You said, you still cry every time you see it. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. /Rotate 0 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. Many of them. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? This scene is an important one because it highlights how the acceptance of students into charter schools is determined by the luck of the draw and how some students are not able to enter into the public school of their choice solely because luck was not on their side. "[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. 1. In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. I said I don't want to go up. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. 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. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. /Resources << 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. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. LEGEND: Yes. We love hard-working teachers. You don't come off well in this movie. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. 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. WEINGARTEN: John. WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. stream SCARBOROUGH: Randi said the teachers wanted the tools to get the job done. endobj You think it was about -- let's be respectful. These people are the ones making the decisions. 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. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." >> He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. 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. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. But I think that's false. Because there is no downside to failure. 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? These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. First, I loved that town hall today. SCARBOROUGH: Right. 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 It's happening in Los Angeles. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats 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. 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 said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Didn't get an answer on that. Randi said something that was fascinating. Most of them. /ExtGState << So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. We love good teachers. That is the problem. This is our country. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. /Properties << You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. 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. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. 6 0 obj And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. It's not about charter schools. [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." You believe it. << New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. 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. It was about a whole range of other issues. It matters who your local representative is. RHEE: Thats correct. I know they are. endobj Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. What did you learn? /Font << /Type /Page I support public schools. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. << And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. SCARBOROUGH: Right. endobj If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the /Properties << 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? She was a teacher in Indianapolis. Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present, an undergraduate course with Professor Jack Dougherty at Trinity College, Hartford CT. 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a/ ^} Through the stories of five children who wanted to attend a charter school, the film shows how one child was accepted and another child was accepted from the wait list while three children were not accepted at all. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. 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. By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. 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. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. /Type /Page 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. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. No one wants lousy 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). 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. What if I made a movie that gets people to care about other peoples children and fight for other people's children as much I fight for mine. And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? Randi we'll let you get a response in here and also, Mika, what we're going to do is figure out where everybody agrees. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. 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. We're turning to you now. << BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. 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. 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.
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