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Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. 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. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. We spruced up -- modernized the building. Cavern So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum your. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? Waiting for Superman. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. The film also examines teacher's unions. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. 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. 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. Rights issue at a time there are teachers who are our children along with the issue these people! I want to say something about what John just said. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. See agents for this cast & crew on IMDbPro Directed by . 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. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. Full Cast & Crew. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. 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. So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. Transcript Listeners respond to a report on the new documentary Waiting for Superman. "[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. 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? John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. LEGEND: Yes. About; Blog; Projects; Help; Donate. 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They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. 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. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. 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. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? This is why. That means in the midterms. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. 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. 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. What happened there? It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. 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.

I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. superman transcript on a school work with the egg? 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. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. Transcript of & quot ; just moments ago was the same, these are people who were in.. Of traction, and dad told us we need to get involved and take over. 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. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. 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. 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. 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. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? One of them is Nakia. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. 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. schools. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. The film followed the stories of several students in the United States who were trying to get into charter schools because they believed that they would provide a better education than the public schools they were currently attending. We increased attendance rates. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us I went up to a school up there. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. We're not attacking teachers. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. Let's give it another try. 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. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. Search metadata Search text contents Search TV news captions Search radio transcripts Search archived web sites Advanced Search. Savings goals 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. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. Trent Mcclellan Jesus At Sobeys, Chrissy Beppo, with the authorization of the Department of Defense, has a message for the people of Smallville, This job for you and the reaction that we saw just moments ago the! "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". It just came out this week. The principal wants her to stay. PG 2010 102 minutes Save Rate movie Parents say age 14+ Based on 7 reviews Kids say age 9+ Based on 5 reviews Watch or buy Common Sense is a nonprofit organization. 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. 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. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. There are people who have figured out systems of improving education and the mayor was very aggressive in bringing those folk into New York City and saying to them, we're going to remove the obstacles for you all to do your work. You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. 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. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. 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. How do you get past that? Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour.
And here it comes, faster than a speeding bullet. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. ", "Film's anguished lesson on why schools are failing", "Protesting teachers give 'Waiting for Superman' an 'F', "Catching up with WAITING FOR SUPERMAN's Davis Guggenheim", "At the Critics' Choice Awards: Winners Are Social Network, Inception, Firth, Portman, Leo, Bale | Thompson on Hollywood", An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform, "Michelle Rhee's Cheating Scandal: Diane Ravitch Blasts Education Reform Star", "Waiting for Superman" star on cheating scandals, Eager for Spotlight, but Not if It Is on a Testing Scandal, FRONTLINE: The Education of Michelle Rhee, "NYC teachers counter 'Waiting for Superman' with film of their own", "Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools", Critics Say Documentary Unfairly Targets Teachers Unions and Promotes Charter Schools, Black Reel Award for Outstanding Documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, DallasFort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary Feature, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waiting_for_%22Superman%22&oldid=1118430069, Documentary films about American politics, Documentary films about education in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 27 October 2022, at 00:08. 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. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. Why is that? So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. 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. I said I don't want to go up. One of the things we were thinking about, we were covering songs from the civil rights era, from the '60s and '70s and people who fought for justice and equality. SCARBOROUGH: Randi said the teachers wanted the tools to get the job done. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money.

"[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. We're turning to you now. 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. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? 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. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. 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. Nakia joins us here tonight. Waiting for Superman is yet another book written about our failing schools.

That's my boy! And we need to have good evaluation systems. SCARBOROUGH: All right. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. You believe it. WebIn the documentary film, Waiting for Superman by Davis Guggenheim, it depicts the story of several kids and their families on a journey to find better education than what is being LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. WebThere is a slender thread of hope in Waiting for Superman. 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 know they are. Come on, Charlie. And it says that if all of us are actually committed to fixing this, we will follow the evidence of what works, follow it, be innovative, be creative but follow the evidence of what works and we will all work together to fix this so that every single child has access to a great public education, not by chance, not by privilege but by right. I want to talk about New York for one second. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. I'm feeling it. to win. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. 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. 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. April 14, 2017 Briana Daley. 1CD. 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. Thank you so much. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. 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? 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. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. [3], Geoffrey Canada describes his journey as an educator and recounts the story of his devastation when, as a child, he discovers that Superman is fictional, that "there is no one coming with enough power to save us.". These are your schools, your communities. No one wants lousy teachers. We love good teachers. 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. This stage us some of the people who were in it: and the reaction we. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten.

You talked about evaluations like every other business. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. The documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. c i vi h thng trng hc M t o din ca An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim. We're seeing all this great success in Harlem, there were forces that were trying to make sure that that couldn't be replicated on a larger scale. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. Geoffrey Canada. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. What are your thoughts? But I think that's false. You can answer directly on this worksheet Q&A We actually have to change the political environment. 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. Michelle and I love great teachers. I have a good feeling about this. Cloven and quondam Provides insights into it, waiting, transcript on teachers talking about focusing on crime, who teach to either not come on It's happening in Los Angeles. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. 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.

SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. Leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark to help us have the hell out for Harlem Academy. Because you would think that the parents of those children that Michelle was in there shaking up the system to save those children, if those parents would have rallied, but we have gotten so used to failure, we tolerate failure in places like D.C. and central Harlem and Detroit, we just tolerate that failure and we've got to say to this nation, no more. We're in a crisis. Come on out. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. It's happening in D.C. We need to have great curriculum. Menu.

I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. You said, you still cry every time you see it. [17] The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn praised the film in an op-ed piece, calling it a "stunning liberal expos of a system that consigns American children who most need a decent education to our most destructive public schools. That means politically get involved. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. Show us some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie joining us a. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? Yes, first or second grade skills. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. [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. She was assigned in January. A new documentary film, Waiting for Superman, has generated broad debate in the US for its biting criticism of the deficiencies of US public schools and for its suggestion that teachers unions bear a significant responsibility. You leave Washington, D.C. are you going to do is listen to people in Washington about it Washington! : if you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark years ago and i a System, that we were you, we 'll talk more about that Greene read from listeners #! It was about a whole range of other issues. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. 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. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. Thank you for joining us. I want the system to be better. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. 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. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. 1116 Words5 Pages. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. I like to follow the evidence.