This is why. >> But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. Davis, god bless you. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? /T1_1 20 0 R SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. /Font << 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? We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. >> I want the system to be better. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. These people are the ones making the decisions. /Parent 1 0 R >> /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. It just came out this week. << /Properties << You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. That's amazing. Or it can't be done. 8 0 obj GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? /Rotate 0 All of my kids have gone to public school. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. One of them is Nakia. BRZEZINSKI: All right. 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. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. /TT0 48 0 R >> You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /Rotate 0 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. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. She was a teacher in Indianapolis. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. <<
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Waiting for 'Superman The bottom line is, you cannot say that you support removing ineffective teachers when then I fire ineffective teachers and you slap me with lawsuits and you slap me with the grievances. KENNY: Right. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. I know they are. >> And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. But when I saw you after the film, and I would -- being macho, hey, Davis, how you doing, man? However, the film shows how even charter schools leave some children behind, as those who are not chosen by the luck of the draw in the lottery system, are not able to attend the charter schools of their choice. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd
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a/ ^} /Type /Page SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. By what name was Waiting for Superman (2010) officially released in India in English? Thats just one of the great things that we see. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ExtGState << WebSummaries. /Filter /FlateDecode Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for Superman is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth /GS1 17 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, LEGEND: Yes. 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. Sept. 23, 2010. PG. /Type /Page 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.
Superman Movie We have to go to break. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? /Contents 33 0 R 1. 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. And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. << [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 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. 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. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. It's about those kids. And I was hurt. 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 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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. That means in the midterms. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up [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." Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up I want to say something about what John just said. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. Why not? This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. /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 said, you still cry every time you see it. >> BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you?
Waiting for 'Superman BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. 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. "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. >> There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. CANADA: The thing I think Chancellor Klein and Mayor Bloomberg have done, they really looked for people to come into the city who had a proven track record. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. Be the first to contribute. I'm feeling it. 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. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. stream WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. I said I don't want to go up. >> Yes, first or second grade skills. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. 4 0 obj Waiting for Superman.2010. We love hard-working 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. 1h 51m. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I have a good feeling about this. We actually have to change the political environment. >> You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. You cannot say we want more resources to go to kids when in fact in this city, Joel Klein is spilling $100 million a year to pay for teachers you saw it in the movie, who aren't actually teaching. >> This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. /Type /Page BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. << WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. 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. I went up to a school up there. Now it's happening in Houston. /T1_0 24 0 R WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. Only 3 out of 100 students at Roosevelt will graduate with the necessary classes for admission to a four year university. /GS1 17 0 R 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). ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y
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(b]Jl BP> Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. [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. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. John, tell us how you got involved in this. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. You believe it, don't you, Michelle? WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. Last Friday night I watched Davis Guggenheims new documentary, Teach, which was broadcast in on CBS.Guggenheim, you may recall, is the filmmaker who brought us Waiting For Superman, the shameless propaganda-fest that signaled the full-on nuclear stage of the corporate-driven war on public education (also known as the Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. It affects good teachers, too. 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? SCARBOROUGH: Welcome back to our education nation special on "Waiting For Superman." When I see from my own experience as a school teach are for six years when evaluations didn't work and less than 20 percent of them think that evaluations work right now. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. But, Mondello /GS1 17 0 R
Waiting for Superman and Failing Public Schools - The New Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. I support public schools. RHEE: First, I think I would be remiss if I did not point out to everybody that there's been a lot of talk about public schools, public schools. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well.
Waiting for Superman: Documentary Analysis UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. It's the school that Deborah Kenny runs. /ExtGState << >> Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. I cry for him sometimes. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? Final words with our panel, next after a short break. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. First, I loved that town hall today. The union leaderships could take this on as a platform and say this is something we're going to commit to and give our membership behind this so we can show progress in taking on these issues. In this incredible movie, "Waiting For Superman," Davis Guggenheim introduces to us some of the heroic parents who struggle to provide a better future for their children. 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. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? No one wants lousy teachers.
"waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua" 9 0 obj Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av We increased attendance rates. 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. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"?
Education in Waiting for Superman Documentary I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. I was really tired. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of education is there's no turning back on reform in education in Washington, D.C. Our union is committed to it. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math? The principal wants her to stay. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! 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. SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. /Font << [2] The film criticizes the American public education system by following several students as they strive to be accepted into competitive charter schools such as KIPP LA Schools, Harlem Success Academy and Summit Preparatory Charter High School. >> When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. RHEE: Thats correct. Thank you for joining us. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. WEINGARTEN: A collaboration issue was where we disagreed at times.
Waiting for 'Superman As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. 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. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. Guggenheim, Davis. endobj BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] At the end of the film, there is writing that states: The problem is complex but the steps are simple. >> /Count 5 DAISY: I want to be a nurse. 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. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] The second thing is, I think the frustrating thing to me about panels like this, when we get going we have to stop. 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 SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. That means politically get involved. She was assigned in January. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? During its opening weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, the film grossed $141,000 in four theaters, averaging $35,250 per theater. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? >> /GS0 18 0 R /Contents 36 0 R You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. 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. 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. /XObject << Its so interesting you say that because Mika, Chris, our EP, myself, everybody thats seen this movie says first of all, they break down and cry at the end of this movie and then when they go home and they look at their children, children who can go to really great schools, they look at their own children differently. 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. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. /Font << BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. 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.