WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. 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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? We have to go to break. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. /ExtGState << /Rotate 0 By Stephen Holden. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. I know, but you didn't have enough money. Yes, there should be fairness. << There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. I think we all need to take more responsibility. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? WEINGARTEN: Yes. SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? Thank you so much. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. 7 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. /T1_0 24 0 R I want to talk about New York for one second. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. 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. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. >> SCARBOROUGH: Davis? The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. /Im0 19 0 R The most influential scene during this segment is when one of the students, Bianca, and her mother, Nakia, wait for Biancas name to be called as the lottery nears the end. /Resources << 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 What happened there? WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. %PDF-1.3 Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? 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. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. Explain to me how that is good for children. We need to do a lot more of what Debbie Kenny is doing in that school but we need to do whats going on in lots and lots and lots of public schools because at the end of the day, every single teacher I know wants to make a difference in the lives of kids. 10 0 obj [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.". LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. /Rotate 0 Because what is wrong with what he's saying? /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Wouldn't that have been better? Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public >> An examination of the current state of education in America today. /Type /Catalog It's about those kids. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. endobj Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av /Rotate 0 /T1_1 20 0 R It's must-see TV. 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? These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. Is there any give here? You said, you still cry every time you see it. 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 want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. And we need to have good evaluation systems. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? Why not? 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. Sept. 23, 2010. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. SCARBOROUGH: Right. These people are the ones making the decisions. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. 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. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. 8 0 obj << You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. She was assigned in January. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. You talked about evaluations like every other business. I want to say something about what John just said. 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. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. /T1_1 24 0 R That's not the case with all charter schools across America. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. /GS1 17 0 R The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. SCARBOROUGH: First and foremost -- LEGEND: If we care about justice, if we care about equality in this country, we have to care about fixing education. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. /Parent 1 0 R What are your thoughts? Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. endobj LESTE BELL, DAISYS TEACHER: She chose her college and she wrote a letter to the admissions and asking them to allow her to attend their college. Why were you frightened to send her to school. We love hard-working teachers. We're going to lose our nation. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. Michelle and I love great teachers. Ht6R*bs7n& It matters who your local representative is. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 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. [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. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. /T1_0 20 0 R UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. endobj And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. /Contents 33 0 R She was a teacher in Indianapolis. [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. The answer is no. NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. 5 0 obj /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. 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 . BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. What have you been able to do with them? WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. /Parent 1 0 R He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. I get why that's good for the adults. CANADA: There are two things. stream /Length 868 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. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. 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. 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. /GS0 18 0 R 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 think he wants to do the right thing. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. How do you explain that to a child? One of them is Nakia. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] 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. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. << BRZEZINSKI: When the results came down, we watched you respond, we watched her respond. 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. It was about a whole range of other issues. SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. >> /GS1 17 0 R BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? 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. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. >> "[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. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. But do you think Michelle Rhee was trying to improve the performance of the teachers in her district, was she trying to make the schools better? Thank you for joining us. 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. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? 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. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. The issue is, and we saw it and heard it in the town hall today a lot, we need to have instruments like they do in every other business to effectively judge and assess teachers. It's happening in D.C. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. We'll hear from the audience as well. No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. 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. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. NAKIA: Yes. Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. /Parent 1 0 R /Font << Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. Randi said something that was fascinating. We spruced up -- modernized the building. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /T1_0 24 0 R 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. This is our country. /Rotate 0 And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. 2 0 obj 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. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. /Font << Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Resources << 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. endstream Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. 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. 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. Thanks to all of our guests. SCARBOROUGH: Davis, let's begin with you. 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. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. It reveals that the two major problems The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. But I think that's false. 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.
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