>> BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. When you have kids from Harlem going there with first grade reading proficiency and science proficiency and they leave three years later with 100 percent proficiency, it just -- at some point it becomes a moral issue. /Font << SCARBOROUGH: Right. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. Wouldn't that have been better? Seventy-eight percent of them, this is not our survey, this was their survey, said a union was absolutely essential to them to try and stop school politics or principal abuses. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. I'm just wondering. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. 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. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. Waiting for "Superman" premiered in the US on September 24, 2010, in theaters in New York and Los Angeles, with a rolling wider release that began on October 1, 2010. 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. /T1_0 24 0 R SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. We have to go to break. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. We'll be right back. 6 0 obj 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. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. IE 11 is not supported. I've been amazed by what's possible. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. PG. DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. It's a random selection. I want to talk about New York for one second. SCARBOROUGH: Right. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. Michelle and I love great teachers. It's happening in Los Angeles. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. 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. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. /MC0 37 0 R /GS1 17 0 R BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. /T1_0 52 0 R /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Im0 19 0 R 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 Web2010. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Vergosa, Andrew. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. 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. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? But, Mondello You said, you still cry every time you see it. RHEE: I do. /Properties << 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 sometimes there's a disconnect between them. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Waiting for "Superman" | Apple TV That means politically get involved. The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. >> SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? TRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. They'll talk about this issue. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. But you did. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. SCARBOROUGH: All right. We decreased violent crimes that were happening in the schools. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? Let's give five extra hours for all the teachers in America to help kids right now and have the unions lead this charge of saying this is an emergency, we need to help these kids. "[30] Lastly, Ayers writes that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. RHEE: Heres the thing. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. Many of them. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. /GS1 17 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. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. >> /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] And I always -- Im at screenings all across the country. WebSummaries. There are core values we have to have. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? It just came out this week. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] "[19] Forbes' Melik Kaylan similarly liked the film, writing, "I urge you all to drop everything and go see the documentary Waiting For "Superman" at the earliest opportunity. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. The issue is we have to all do this together with good contracts, with all of us on the same side, getting to help good teachers, getting supportive principals, getting a curriculum and the wrap-around services that Geoff does that cradle to college service. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. Come on out. /GS1 17 0 R 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. Waiting for Superman stream This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". There are really, really bad charter schools across America. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. It is a revolution. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up waiting for superman documentary transcript BRZEZINSKI: Okay. Waiting for 'Superman Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? Waiting for Superman CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. GUGGENHEIM: The dream of making a movie like this is conversations just like this, the fact that you and NBC and Viacom and Paramount and Get School bring a movie to the table and let people in this room have a real conversation about to fix our schools is essential. Waiting for 'Superman' Quotes SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. /Length 866 Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. NAKIA: I was disturbed. 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. /Pages 1 0 R An examination of the current state of education in America today. 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. All of my kids have gone to public school. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. I'm joking. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. 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. 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. << & CEO, HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: I think the real important issue for us to face as Americans is if we don't fix this, we will not remain a great country. Waiting for Superman 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? RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. /Type /Catalog Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. 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. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. What have you been able to do with them? That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. 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). We love good teachers. [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.". CANADA: There are two things. And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. First, I loved that town hall today. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. /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 ] I have a good feeling about this. Take a moment. RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. "[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. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? /GS0 18 0 R Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. 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? It's happening in D.C. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. Thanks to all of our guests. You have to live in the district. BRZEZINSKI: All right. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. In fact you come off quite badly. I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. >> 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 We spruced up -- modernized the building. "Geraldo at Large." The attendance and the schools itself. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. Now it's happening in Houston. /ExtGState << WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. John, tell us how you got involved in this. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. Yes, there should be fairness. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". I think he wants to do the right thing. The movie's major villains are the National >> MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. >> /Contents 36 0 R Is there any give here? David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to