Waiting For Superman /Im0 19 0 R But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. /ExtGState << But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] So we've got to open up this issue of innovation and we've got to make sure that in those places we allow real educators to come in and redesign this thing so it works. Waiting for 'Superman WEINGARTEN: Look, we have schools in New York, like the school that Steve Barr and I run, which has a union contract, we're 100 percent of the kids path the math regions. Geoffrey Canada. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. Let me answer your question first. /XObject << /Resources << stream /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. << John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. What if I made a movie that gets people to care about other peoples children and fight for other people's children as much I fight for mine. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. >> I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. >> Waiting for "Superman," Davis Guggenheim's edifying and heartbreaking new documentary, says that our future depends on good teachers and that the coddling of bad teachers by their powerful unions virtually ensures mediocrity, at best, in both teachers and the students in their care. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. I know, but you didn't have enough money. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. By the end of the year she only had half a year of teaching. RHEE: You wake up every morning and you know that 46,000 kids are counting on you. The film also examines teacher's unions. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. 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. NAKIA: Yes. We actually have to change the political environment. There's a lot of people in this country that aren't feeling what we feel. 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. By showing its audience that even charter schools close their doors to some students, which them forces these students to attendfailing public schools, the video illustrates howthere are still flaws to the American public school system and challenges that need to be addressed. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. DAISYS GATHER: Yes. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. We increased graduation rates. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. Feb 22, 2013. But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. 1 0 obj 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. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. Are you feeling agreement? BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? When you put a face on this issue, as we talk about the details of it, that's the thing I keep saying to myself, let's not forget as we argue and discuss and learn about this, let's not forget the kids. " YR0^hC#mlj'@]Gc2x}SVvP[sL,yD1-ut |c,{CG1 These people are the ones making the decisions. [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. My kids have won the lottery. endobj 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. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. We need to have great curriculum. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. /Parent 1 0 R No one wants lousy teachers. I'm joking. 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 is that? WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. endobj WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. It matters who your local representative is. 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. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. RHEE: What I think it comes down to, people underestimate we did from the school system side everything we need to do. That's amazing. >> WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. 5 0 obj Go. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. /GS0 18 0 R 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. /Count 5 SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. You don't have all sorts of external rules. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. >> /GS1 17 0 R << There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. We're going to lose our nation. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. NAKIA: I was disturbed. This is our country. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. Most of them. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I know they are. 40 years later we're still fighting for equality and one of the biggest barriers to achieving quality is the fact that so many kids in our country can't get a great education. The goal of the film is to create a successful public education system filled with great schoolsthat leave no child behind, andit calls for reform from all of usin order to reach that goal. Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? /Font << DAISY: I want to be a nurse. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." /GS0 18 0 R WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. Waiting for "Superman" - Wikipedia It reveals that the two major problems We're turning to you now. /T1_0 20 0 R Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. << /Contents [ 39 0 R 40 0 R 41 0 R 42 0 R 43 0 R 44 0 R 45 0 R 46 0 R ] You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. >> SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? People couldn't believe you could do it. We can't have our school system running like this. All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. 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. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. It just came out this week. >> SCARBOROUGH: All right. /T1_0 24 0 R 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. These students range in The movie's major villains are the National What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? IE 11 is not supported. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. The site's consensus states: "Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for "Superman" is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. Because there is no downside to failure. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. Take a look. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. << /Type /Page Let's do this right now and let's look at the best contract in the nation in terms of eliminating ineffective teachers and let's make that the standard across America. 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. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av /Type /Page All of my kids have gone to public school. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. 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'll hear from the audience as well. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] One of the reasons for the high test scores, writes Ravitch, is that many charter schools expel low-performing students to bring up their average scores. /T1_1 57 0 R E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. Explain to me how that is good for children. >> waiting for superman documentary transcript Now it's happening in Houston. It's happening in D.C. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. The attendance and the schools itself. << /Rotate 0 Film. "[30], Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, similarly criticizes the film's lack of accuracy. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] You believe it, don't you, Michelle? But I think that's false. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. The video explores several of the problems within the system, and tells the personal stories of several families and communities who have been impacted and disadvantaged by the broken education system. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] 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. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 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.