On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have 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. /T1_0 20 0 R
Waiting for 'Superman' Quotes That's why -- SCARBOROUGH: To John's point, though -- WEINGARTEN: So we never -- SCARBOROUGH: Unions fought like hell against these successful charter schools being able to expand in New York State. stream The most influential scene during this segment is when one of the students, Bianca, and her mother, Nakia, wait for Biancas name to be called as the lottery nears the end. endobj BRZEZINSKI: You also knew that a little girl like Daisy can be a vet or a doctor or anything she wants to be if she's given the tools to do it. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? >> Film. /GS0 18 0 R
Waiting for Superman (2010) - Plot - IMDb People couldn't believe you could do it. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. Having made a film on the subject in 1999, documentary filmmaker. I think he wants to do the right thing. 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. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. >> These are your schools, your communities. RHEE: I'm just wondering, if the AFT was putting a million dollars into mayoral campaigns all across the country just based on who the teachers liked, I would buy that argument. I like to follow the evidence. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We're in a crisis. Why did you pick this topic? 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. [39], There is also a companion book titled Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools.[40]. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. You have to pull out a bingo ball and call your number. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." WebFILM SUMMARY With passion and urgency, WAITING FOR SUPERMAN advocates for the educational welfare of Americas children in a public school system that is severely Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. Coming up, right after we're finished here, MSNBC will re-air the two-hour town hall. Though money doubled, reading and math scores have flat-lined. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. "[19] Forbes' Melik Kaylan similarly liked the film, writing, "I urge you all to drop everything and go see the documentary Waiting For "Superman" at the earliest opportunity. BRZEZINSKI: All right. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. 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. And the city of Indianapolis said you're the most effective ninth grade reading teacher in our city and we're going to give you a great reward, five days later they had to fire her because the contract said she's the youngest teacher and she has to go Now, there's no one -- bad person in the process. We love hard-working teachers. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. You've done an amazing job there in Harlem. /Resources << CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. These people are the ones making the decisions. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. /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 ] endobj >> Thats just one of the great things that we see. /Count 5 >> What's going on here? Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. This is our country. By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. 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. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, I get to meet all the wonderful teachers out there. << 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. HdT]H|G?GdW{MND)>qOX3cL>NHjr5i:bSqu There are winners and losers. WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. /Parent 1 0 R Because what's happened in so many instances, is that the evaluation system is what's broken. SCARBOROUGH: Okay, Michelle -- WEINGARTEN: We agreed at times. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. This film follows five children and documents them to see what their lives and schools are like. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. How do you explain that to a child? You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. /Parent 1 0 R BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /MC0 31 0 R Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. RHEE: I do. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. 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. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. Educ 300: Education Reform, Past and Present, an undergraduate course with Professor Jack Dougherty at Trinity College, Hartford CT. David GuggenheimsWaiting for Supermanlooks at how theAmerican public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to solve this problem. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? I know, but you didn't have enough money. Filmmaker Davis Guggenheim reminds us that education "statistics" have names: /GS1 17 0 R BRZEZINSKI: On Tuesday morning at 8:00 a.m. from this very stage, General Colin Powell and his wife on "MORNING JOE."
waiting for superman movie transcript So people keep talking about accountability just in terms of firing teachers but what I think people need to understand is how accountability allows you to unleash teacher passion by setting on fire all the teachers in the school because you're allowed to give them the freedom to teach the way they see fit. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. And while our guests enter the stage, let's show you a little clip of the movie, because "Waiting For Superman" is about our system, but what really gets to you in this movie is the individual stories of each child. Waiting for Superman. The contract says she has to go. /Rotate 0
Waiting for 'Superman' (2010) | Watch Free Documentaries Online >> WebSynopsis. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. /GS0 18 0 R We spruced up -- modernized the building. It's happening in D.C. & CEO, HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: I think the real important issue for us to face as Americans is if we don't fix this, we will not remain a great country. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. << Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. I have a good feeling about this. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. 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, Davis. /Type /Page Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. Yes, first or second grade skills. /Filter /FlateDecode SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. But I think that's false. /Properties << UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. endobj American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. Yet instead of examining this critical issue objectively, the movie Waiting for "Superman" cites false statistics in their effort to scapegoat teachers, unfairly blaming them for all the failures of our urban schools. 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.
Documentary: Waiting for Superman [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. [1], The film has earned both praise and negative criticism from commentators, reformers, and educators. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? [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. It's shameful. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. It starts with teachers becoming the very best, leaders removing the barriers of change, neighbors committed to their school, you willing to act (Guggenheim 1:45:05-1:45:28).
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