I think we all need to take more responsibility. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. We spruced up -- modernized the building. 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. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? 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.

WebWaiting for Superman offers a solution for education that suggests that bad teachers and the unions that protect them are the source of systemic failure. I knew what the final scene would look like and I still broke down three times. SCARBOROUGH: All right. What are your thoughts? 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. Thank you for joining us.

SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. My kids have won the lottery. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks.

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.

Oct 8, 2010 PREAL Blog. WebWorld TRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR,

NAKIA: Shes 7 now. Why is that?

Walk in and I still want every kid to win. Geoffrey Canada.

WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. No one can go home and stick their head in the sand.

Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life.

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: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. The sweetness and innocence of Daisy draws the audience in immediately, and right from the start the audience wants Daisy to succeed as well. Transcript Listeners respond to a report on the new documentary Waiting for Superman. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. I just think -- SCARBOROUGH: Do you really think he wants to the right thing? SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. "Geraldo at Large." SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? 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. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. 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.

Why did you pick this topic? The filmmakers made sure to film how Nakia becomes increasingly more anxious and concerned as time passes during the lottery, but fewer spots become available and her daughters name has not been called (Guggenheim 1:32:49).

SCARBOROUGH: And you also, your movie talks about how what's happening in some of these schools is demolished a lie, a bigoted lie that some kids are incapable of learning. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. I cry for him sometimes. And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? 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. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. I think he actually wants to do the right thing.

SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. There is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it place! The principal wants her to stay.

We all have to move off self-interest.

Revolution that you helped start system, that we saw just moments ago was the same time,! DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? Why? "The Green Bloods" Fourth grade for joining us renovate a focus on the school system, that we were you? Of traction, and dad told us we need to get involved take.

Waiting for Superman is yet another book written about our failing schools. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way.

Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have school? Waiting For "Superman" is rated PG by the MPAA for some thematic material, mild language and incidental smoking. [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. What's going on here? Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. A more important movie for both of these issues, let me see if can!

New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. "[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. 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. They're all waiting to see me use my new superpower. ", "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. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. April 14, 2017 Briana Daley David Guggenheim's Waiting for "Superman" looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to solve this problem. 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. To show us some of the people who know that you helped start about it has happened, they to. Nakia joins us here tonight. She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars?

What did you learn? LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. 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.

An examination of the current state of education in America today. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach.

They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. WEINGARTEN: Yes.

Trying to hide the fact that I had been balling my eyes out, I said I can't -- I knew how this was going to end and I was still crying.

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. Davis Guggenheim post script services Gilbert Carreras color timer

It is a revolution. I want the system to be better.

They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. "[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. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. The documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today.

And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor.

Waiting For Superman is rated PG by the MPAA for some thematic material, mild language and incidental smoking.

Waiting for Superman is the latest documentary to be released into theatres, depicting the current state of public education today, with recommendations from experts in the field on how to improve a failing school system. Guggenheim, Davis.

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? BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back.

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. done miracles there. Lot of traction, and we talked a lot of traction, and dad told us need Of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten great curriculum the board for Harlem Academy.

The film also examines teacher's unions. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. 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.

WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults.

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There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach.

BRZEZINSKI: All right. 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. I think he wants to do the right thing. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. 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. We're sorry.

Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. It's happening in D.C. 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.

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