We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. 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. BRZEZINSKI: All right. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. We should let Randi respond. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. "[20], The film also received negative criticism. 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. 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. 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. 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. This is our country. It was about a whole range of other issues. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. >> 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. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. /Rotate 0 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. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. >> /Type /Page [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. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. WEINGARTEN: No one, you know, teachers in at least our union would be the first to tell you, we rail against this system in some ways as much as Geoff and Michelle. 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. /Contents [ 9 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R ] SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. Or it can't be done. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. 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. >> /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] One of them is Nakia. Geoffrey Canada. /Resources << They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. << WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. We're not attacking teachers. >> We all have to move off self-interest. >> NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. 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. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. We spruced up -- modernized the building. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. 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. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? 6 0 obj 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). You know that process has to be fixed. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. >> This is why. (soundbite of film, "big george foreman: the miraculous story of the once and future heavyweight champion of the world") KHRIS DAVIS: (As George Foreman) Last time they saw me, I looked like Superman. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. You fought the law and the law won. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. SCARBOROUGH: All right. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. LEGEND: Who your state senator is. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. It affects good teachers, too. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? 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. 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. NAKIA: Yes. [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. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. /Count 5 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. Feb 22, 2013. We're going to lose our nation. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. My kids have won the lottery. WebSummaries. SCARBOROUGH: I tell you what, that was the part of the movie where Daisy, you saw her crossing her fingers and write physically got nauseated. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Filter /FlateDecode Be the first to contribute. >> SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. 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. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. She was assigned in January. 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). And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. 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. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. Let me answer your question first. /ExtGState << [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.) Davis Guggenheims Documentary, Waiting for Superman explores the corrupt American School system. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. 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. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. 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 If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. I want to talk about New York for one second. "[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. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. The union itself has instead of focusing on good teachers and how we need to help them, give them the tools and conditions, we have always focused on, you know, the due process protections. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. /MC0 62 0 R CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. It's about those kids. >> He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? /Parent 1 0 R endobj Most of them. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. 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. Explain to me how that is good for children. Many of them. Come on out. A teacher wants to stay. /MC0 37 0 R Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? 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. /MC0 31 0 R Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. 10 0 obj It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. 5 0 obj The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. >> << It's shameful. I'm feeling it. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. 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. Are you feeling agreement? I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. 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. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. But you did. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. I went up to a school up there. John, tell us how you got involved in this. 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. %PDF-1.3 /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. >> We have to take ownership. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. /Font << We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. The superintendent wants her to say. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. /ExtGState << A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. Michelle and I love great teachers. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] Fox News. You all have your numbers, right? /GS1 17 0 R It just came out this week. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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? /Resources << RHEE: Thats correct. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. >> The only disagreement that I think our union has had in terms of the way in which things have gone, is that our folks have desperately wanted to have a voice in how to do reform. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? I want the system to be better. 9 0 obj 1h 51m. We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. LEGEND: We need to be clear, you know, sometimes it sounds like everybody is on the same team up here because we all sound like we agree. 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). 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. /GS1 17 0 R Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av Waiting for Superman: Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education statistics have names: Anthony, Francisco, Bianca, Daisy, and Emily, whose WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. "[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. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Properties << You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. These are your schools, your communities. 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. 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? 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. /GS0 18 0 R Thats just one of the great things that we see. "[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. It was not simply about education. Why? Thank you so much. RHEE: I do. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. And we have to have everyone, even parents, recommitted, you know, even school officials, district heads, superintendents, unions, all of us have to move off a position of self-interest like I do with my own kids, sending them to private school, like the unions do, I think, preserving the status quo. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. It's happening in Los Angeles. Why did you pick this topic? I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. 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? 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. Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. /Font << DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. How do you explain that to a child? SCARBOROUGH: Right. We'll be right back. And that is a concept that is so necessary. I have a good feeling about this. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. 4,789 Views. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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 . UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? SCARBOROUGH: Right. We're turning to you now. 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. Thank you for joining us. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? /Contents 33 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu endobj They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. And that means get involved. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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.

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