How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. RHEE: Yes, that's right. [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. We have to take ownership. SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. /Im0 19 0 R On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: 100 percent of the kids pass the science regions. 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. Yes, there should be fairness. >> 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] [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.". SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. And the idea that we now can do it means that we have a very moment right now to say let's take those things, let's take those ingredients and bring them into mainstream schools. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. >> You went into the lottery system for your daughter. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. 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. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. When they hear this back and forth, there's the sense of like, you know what, put my head in the sand, take care of my own kids because this debate has been going on for generations. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. endobj /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. I'm feeling it. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. /T1_0 24 0 R This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). WebGenre: Documentary Waiting for 'Superman' Screenplay Edit Buy Year: 2010 4,775 Views Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. These are our communities. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? 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 >> WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? And that is a concept that is so necessary. NAKIA: Yes. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. << New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. endobj 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. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. "Geraldo at Large." He's a Grammy award winning songwriter. /Resources << 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. /Contents 33 0 R 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. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. We love hard-working teachers. WebWaiting For "Superman" has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a 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. Why not? There's a cap in New York State because ultimately when George Pataki and I and others started to work on having charter schools in this state, there was an issue in terms of the economics and what would happen with moneys in terms of other districts. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. 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. /GS0 18 0 R /Filter /FlateDecode Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. SCARBOROUGH: Right. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. It was not simply about education. 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. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? I was really tired. In New York City, a group of local teachers protested one of the documentary's showings, calling the film "complete nonsense", writing that "there is no teacher voice in the film. You do not come off as the hero of this movie. I love teachers. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. endstream BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 1. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. I support public schools. BRZEZINSKI: All right. Feel free to edit or add to this page, as long as the information comes directly from the We love good teachers. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. /Contents 30 0 R 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. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? /Length 866 8 0 obj CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. >> We increased student achievement levels. 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. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? /Parent 1 0 R 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. SCARBOROUGH: If you're going to lock kids in Harlem out of that process and let a few see the light and see the -- that seems to me to be immoral. 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. >> DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. We'll come back and continue this. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. I said I don't want to go up. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. 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 And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. 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. 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. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. Sept. 23, 2010. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] IE 11 is not supported. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. Feb 22, 2013. The documentary follows The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. >> Most of them. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. /Font << /GS1 17 0 R 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. /Length 868 Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. 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. 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. CANADA: Sure. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 BRZEZINSKI: It was still painful. >> 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. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. Explain to me how that is good for children. 9 0 obj BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. >> /T1_1 20 0 R Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? I know they are. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. /Font << [31] Ravitch served as a board member with the NAEP and says that "the NAEP doesn't measure performance in terms of grade-level achievement," as claimed in the film, but only as "advanced," "proficient," and "basic." WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. That means in the midterms. SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. /Rotate 0 "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". [8], Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "What struck me most of all was Geoffrey Canada's confidence that a charter school run on his model can make virtually any first-grader a high school graduate who's accepted to college. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. 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 asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. Waiting for Superman. 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. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. 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. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. BRZEZINSKI: Youre outnumbered. 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. During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. Joe and I saw the movie a few days ago and we literally walked up Broadway, I think it was, in complete silence, both feeling very twisted and angry about what we had seen.