"[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. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. 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. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. These students range in I want to say something about what John just said. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} /Rotate 0 That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. Didn't get an answer on that. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. Ravitch also writes that many charter schools are involved in "unsavory real estate deals" [31], In 2011, many news media reported on a testing score "cheating scandal" at Rhee's schools, because the test answer sheets contained a suspiciously high number of erasures that changed wrong answers to right answers. 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. Most of them. 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 "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [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. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. That's the first thing. /ExtGState << Because we talked to Randi before. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. "[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. It reveals that the two major problems WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. WEINGARTEN: Look, we have schools in New York, like the school that Steve Barr and I run, which has a union contract, we're 100 percent of the kids path the math regions. 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As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). 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 endobj 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. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. You have to live in the district. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. WebSummaries. /Length 868 BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. I love teachers. >> Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. 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. 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 BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? /Type /Pages But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? /ExtGState << It is a revolution. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. 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. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. >> It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. >> /Rotate 0 RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. PG. I think he wants to do the right thing. The documentary follows It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. That means in the midterms. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. BRZEZINSKI: All right. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up 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. /Parent 1 0 R BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: schools. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. 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. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. CANADA: There are two things. CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, /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 ] What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] 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. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. endobj >> Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. And she thought I was crying because it's like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us. I want to talk about New York for one second. SCARBOROUGH: Right. >> SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. 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'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. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisys path to medical school begins with eighth grade algebra which she'll need to take when she moves up to Stevenson Middle School. At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. 8 0 obj UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. 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. And I was hurt. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. 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. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. >> /T1_0 24 0 R I want the system to be better. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. 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 . But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. We're turning to you now. 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. endobj /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Length 866 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. /Type /Catalog CANADA: Well you know what? For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. The contract says she has to go. Thats just one of the great things that we see. JOHN LEGEND, SONGWRITER: Well, it's an interesting story because I was making this album "Wake-Up." /Resources << Do you think it has characterized you fairly? 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. I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." That is the problem. NAKIA: She felt it wasn't fair that other children were being picked and she was just as smart as they were and why not her. LEGEND: Well, it's been quite a learning experience because I get to meet great educators. /Font << We increased graduation rates. So people keep talking about accountability just in terms of firing teachers but what I think people need to understand is how accountability allows you to unleash teacher passion by setting on fire all the teachers in the school because you're allowed to give them the freedom to teach the way they see fit. 2 0 obj Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. 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). And the city of Indianapolis said you're the most effective ninth grade reading teacher in our city and we're going to give you a great reward, five days later they had to fire her because the contract said she's the youngest teacher and she has to go Now, there's no one -- bad person in the process. /Rotate 0 During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. << [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. /Properties << They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. KENNY: Right. /Resources << Waiting for Superman. KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. We're going to lose our nation. NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. stream You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. 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? One of them is Nakia. What are your thoughts? We're just saying --. We're not attacking teachers. We have to take ownership. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. The film also examines teacher's unions. It's must-see TV. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. We actually have to change the political environment. The film portrays the deep sadness that Bianca and her mother feel when Bianca is not accepted into the charter school as the two embrace one another at the end and Nakia dries her daughters tears (Guggenheim 1:37:35). 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. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. We should let Randi respond. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. Wouldn't that have been better? BRZEZINSKI: Okay. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. Waiting for "Superman," Davis Guggenheim's edifying and heartbreaking new documentary, says that our future depends on good teachers and that the coddling of bad teachers by their powerful unions virtually ensures mediocrity, at best, in both teachers and the students in their care. An examination of the current state of education in America today. 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. 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 went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. /Type /Page Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. "[10] Joe Morgenstern, writing for The Wall Street Journal, gave the film a positive review writing, "when the future of public education is being debated with unprecedented intensity," the film "makes an invaluable addition to the debate. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. >> No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. /Type /Page Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. We need to have great curriculum. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. 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. You don't come off well in this movie. [37] It criticizes some public figures featured in Waiting for "Superman", proposes different policies to improve education in the United States and counters the position taken by Guggenheim. IE 11 is not supported. I cry for him sometimes. >> What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? /Parent 1 0 R Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] We're feeling a real sense of commitment. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. /Count 5 RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? Documentary. /GS0 18 0 R CANADA: Can I just tell you this? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? Why not? Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? I'm joking. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. SCARBOROUGH: Right. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. 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: Why are you going to get fired? We increased attendance rates. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. The superintendent wants her to say. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. It's a random selection. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about 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. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, 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. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? How do you get past that? [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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth Final words with our panel, next after a short break. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. /Pages 1 0 R But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? >> endstream 4 0 obj This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. /XObject << /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. >> /GS0 18 0 R Are you feeling agreement? Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. It just came out this week. That youre not going to look American with our 15,000 school system and say we're going to charter them, that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. 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. /Filter /FlateDecode Sept. 23, 2010. endobj << endobj >> 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. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. I said I don't want to go up. In fact you come off quite badly. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. 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. These are your schools, your communities. I have a good feeling about this. BRZEZINSKI: No. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose By Stephen Holden. He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. SCARBOROUGH: Randi said the teachers wanted the tools to get the job done. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. [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. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. WEINGARTEN: John. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. 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. 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. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. That means politically get involved. NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her.

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