Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. But I think that's false. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? /GS0 18 0 R 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. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? I know you have to say your side of this and this is hard for all of us. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. 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. The film assumes that any student below proficient is "below grade level," but this claim is not supported by the NAEP data. What did you learn? SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. These students range in I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. 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. ]o m P:giwgRG+g;)Y 'J[+AH@f6=D.Ga5&0RL[?Xt6MU*/-waUN The documentary follows Randi said something that was fascinating. RHEE: Yes, that's right. No one wants lousy teachers. And we need to have good evaluation systems. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. >> CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. I'm feeling it. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? But you did. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. Many of them. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." I think he wants to do the right thing. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. endobj Wouldn't that have been better? Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] [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. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. /GS1 17 0 R That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. >> You know, in Washington, D.C., under Mayor Fenty who arguably I think is the most courageous politician we have on these education reform issues, we did everything, arguably, that people wanted to see. [31] (The film says, however, that it is focusing on the one in five superior charter schools, or close to 17%, that do outperform public schools.) When you hear, well, I get paid whether or not you learn or not, it sticks with you. 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. Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? /Rotate 0 >> 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? /Font << 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. >> One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. >> But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. I think we all need to take more responsibility. "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. /Properties << >> I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. 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 Nakia joins us here tonight. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. 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 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: Really quickly. [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. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. >> 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: Right. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? stream I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. SCARBOROUGH: You also told me that there was a split in the civil rights community, that older members of the civil rights community sometimes fought younger members of the civil rights community who were reformers. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. 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. But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. 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. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. endstream We increased student achievement levels. IE 11 is not supported. RHEE: Heres the thing. The film portrays the deep sadness that Bianca and her mother feel when Bianca is not accepted into the charter school as the two embrace one another at the end and Nakia dries her daughters tears (Guggenheim 1:37:35). Things such as the ease in which a public school teacher achieves tenure, the inability to fire a teacher who is tenured, and how the system attempts to reprimand poorly performing teachers are shown to affect the educational environment. /Rotate 0 They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. RHEE: I do. >> Feb 22, 2013. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. We're not attacking teachers. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. It was about a whole range of other issues. >> BRZEZINSKI: All right. 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. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. /ExtGState << Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. /T1_0 20 0 R /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. We all have to move off self-interest. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. WebThe documentary Waiting for Superman, directed by Davis Guggenheim, is a film that shows how school systems are today. RHEE: We wanted to give the teachers the tools. NAKIA: Yes. /Font << WebWaiting For Superman (871) 7.4 1 h 51 min 2010 X-Ray PG The lives of five Harlem and Bronx families in the high stakes lottery for access to New York City's best charter 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. I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. SCARBOROUGH: Right. New York City on a bad day outpaced Washington on a great day. SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? That's the first thing. 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. << 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] << 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. /Parent 1 0 R Cross your fingers. 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. Let me answer your question first. 7 0 obj 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text /ImageC ] SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? PG. I'd like to follow up by asking you, that on "MEET THE PRESS" this morning, you said the union has taken steps to make teachers better, taken concrete steps. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. %PDF-1.3 That means in the midterms. There are winners and losers. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. SCARBOROUGH: Hold on a second. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. 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. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? Where does the union take some responsibility in this? WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. 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. Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? BRZEZINSKI: When the number came down, what was that telling your daughter, what was that telling you? Why not? stream >> But, Mondello 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. 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. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. "[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. [17] The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn praised the film in an op-ed piece, calling it a "stunning liberal expos of a system that consigns American children who most need a decent education to our most destructive public schools. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. I love teachers. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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). These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. 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). In fact you come off quite badly. << All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. /ExtGState << SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. 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. /ExtGState << But I do think though Davis even though we may disagree there wasn't a public school or a public school teacher that was pictured in this film, people have done amazing jobs. /T1_1 24 0 R ", "Film's anguished lesson on why schools are failing", "Protesting teachers give 'Waiting for Superman' an 'F', "Catching up with WAITING FOR SUPERMAN's Davis Guggenheim", "At the Critics' Choice Awards: Winners Are Social Network, Inception, Firth, Portman, Leo, Bale | Thompson on Hollywood", An Inconvenient Superman: Davis Guggenheim's New Film Hijacks School Reform, "Michelle Rhee's Cheating Scandal: Diane Ravitch Blasts Education Reform Star", "Waiting for Superman" star on cheating scandals, Eager for Spotlight, but Not if It Is on a Testing Scandal, FRONTLINE: The Education of Michelle Rhee, "NYC teachers counter 'Waiting for Superman' with film of their own", "Waiting For "Superman": How We Can Save America's Failing Public Schools", Critics Say Documentary Unfairly Targets Teachers Unions and Promotes Charter Schools, Black Reel Award for Outstanding Documentary, Beats, Rhymes & Life: The Travels of A Tribe Called Quest, Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Documentary Feature, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, DallasFort Worth Film Critics Association Award for Best Documentary Film, Summer of Soul (Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised), National Board of Review Award for Best Documentary Feature, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills, Producers Guild of America Award for Best Documentary Motion Picture, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Waiting_for_%22Superman%22&oldid=1118430069, Documentary films about American politics, Documentary films about education in the United States, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0, This page was last edited on 27 October 2022, at 00:08. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. 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. One of them is Nakia. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. [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. 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. Are you feeling agreement? So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. By Stephen Holden. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". She was assigned in January. All of my kids have gone to public school. I said that's right, but that was mommy's choice to put you in that school. You went into the lottery system for your daughter. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. SCARBOROUGH: It really is. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. 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. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. It was not simply about education. It's about places that have failed for 30, 40, 50 years, we can't do the same thing this year that we did last year. 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As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). >> GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. /GS1 17 0 R I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? << A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? We need to have great curriculum. The issue here in terms of education -- SCARBOROUGH: Wait. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. RHEE: Thats correct. And that means get involved. We have to go to break. /MC0 62 0 R UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. 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. [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." You all have your numbers, right? There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. /MC0 28 0 R Take a look. /Count 5 David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to 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?