/MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools (the district with some of the worst-performing students at the time), is shown attempting to take on the union agreements that teachers are bound to, but suffers a backlash from the unions and the teachers themselves. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." stream SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. /T1_1 20 0 R RHEE: I do. >> It's must-see TV. 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. >> And she thought I was crying because it's like Santa Claus is not real and I was crying because there was no one coming with enough power to save us. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. /Properties << [32][33][34][35][36], A teacher-backed group called the Grassroots Education Movement produced a rebuttal documentary titled The Inconvenient Truth Behind Waiting for Superman, which was released in 2011. [37] It criticizes some public figures featured in Waiting for "Superman", proposes different policies to improve education in the United States and counters the position taken by Guggenheim. Waiting for Superman.2010. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. 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. 4 0 obj >> You don't have all sorts of external rules. SCARBOROUGH: Were back with our panel, Michelle, one of the stunning parts of many stunning parts in this documentary, in this film, was when Davis showed the proficiency numbers state by state. /Count 5 >> It affects good teachers, too. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. /Font << We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Nakia joins us here tonight. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. And that is a concept that is so necessary. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. 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I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. 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. /ExtGState << 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. >> "[20], The film also received negative criticism. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. << Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. /Length 868 Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. "[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. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. Or it can't be done. >> I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. 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. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. >> GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. /MC0 37 0 R I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. We love good teachers. We have to take ownership. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. >> ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. The answer is no. /Resources << Take a look. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. But you did. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. >> /XObject << [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. 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. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. /MC0 62 0 R If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE." I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. 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. And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. It's a random selection. I think we all have to look in the mirror and say, what have we done wrong up until now and what do we need to do better? 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. Most of them. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. There's a complete and utter lack of accountability for the job that we're supposed to be doing, which is producing results for kids. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. 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. 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. I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. By Stephen Holden. endobj (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. 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. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] It's happening in D.C. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. >> /Properties << >> WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. >> SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. Is there any give here? We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. Yes, there should be fairness. 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? [15] Deborah Kenny, CEO and founder of the Harlem Village Academies, made positive reference to the film in a The Wall Street Journal op-ed piece about education reform. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. /Resources << BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. 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. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth It's happening in Los Angeles. Many of them. I like to follow the evidence. Ht6R*bs7n& Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. So we're going to differentiate and we're going to recognize and reward the highest performing teachers and we're going to look at the lowest performing teachers and we're going to remove them from the system. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. We'll hear from the audience as well. We're in a crisis. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN 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. We all have to move off self-interest. 1 0 obj We actually have to change the political environment. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. /T1_0 52 0 R endobj This is why. 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. endobj 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. This is a documentary about our failing education system and the tears we saw in this room are about our children and how our schools are leaving them behind. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. That means in the midterms. 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. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. endobj "Geraldo at Large." /Parent 1 0 R Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, These are your schools, your communities. Guggenheim, Davis. RHEE: I don't think they are. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. We're going to lose our nation. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. 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. BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? Come on out. endstream 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. No one wants lousy teachers. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. >> DAISY: I want to be a nurse. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. "[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. RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. /T1_1 20 0 R (d acJ4@%Q8C/! Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there.
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