>> >> /Contents [ 9 0 R 10 0 R 11 0 R 12 0 R 13 0 R 14 0 R 15 0 R 16 0 R ] /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CANADA: Sure. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. It is must-see TV, from 9:00 to 11:00 Eastern Time right here on MSNBC. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 Acquiring that good education is the daunting challenge they face. /ExtGState << BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. >> NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. 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 This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". No one wants lousy teachers. >> << 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. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. 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. /T1_1 20 0 R /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] One of them is Nakia. BEGIN VIDEO CLIP: NAKIA: I grew up in the public school system. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. CANADA: Well you know what? But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. And the audience in this room just finished watching an extraordinary powerful film called "Waiting For Superman" which opened just a few days ago. SCARBOROUGH: The reformer. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] According to Waiting for Superman, from 1971 to today, America has gone from spending an average of $4,300 per student to $9,000 per student, (adjusting for inflation). /T1_1 57 0 R These are our communities. 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. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. /T1_0 24 0 R I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. 4,789 Views. The attendance and the schools itself. JOHN LEGEND, SONGWRITER: Well, it's an interesting story because I was making this album "Wake-Up." << BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. I think that teachers are not the problem, they are the solution to the problems that we face. 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. The issue is about how we create the best environment for kids. BRZEZINSKI: All right. [30] In Ayers' view, the "corporate powerhouses and the ideological opponents of all things public" have employed the film to "break the teacher's unions and to privatize education," while driving teachers' wages even lower and running "schools like little corporations. 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. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. If I don't, Ill just be with my friends. I get why that's good for the adults. SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. /TT0 48 0 R Now it's happening in Houston. SCARBOROUGH: The nation's capital. Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. Film. 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. What were the results of the kids who came in and were about to graduate this June, late May, what is the change that has happened with these children? If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. /Properties << Final words with our panel, next after a short break. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. Fox News. /Type /Catalog All you have to do is listen to people in Washington about it. You believe it. >> It's about those kids. Let's give five extra hours for all the teachers in America to help kids right now and have the unions lead this charge of saying this is an emergency, we need to help these kids. /Parent 1 0 R LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. LEGEND: Yes. 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. That was in the second grade, because my father had passed. Michelle Rhee, the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools (the district with some of the worst-performing students at the time), is shown attempting to take on the union agreements that teachers are bound to, but suffers a backlash from the unions and the teachers themselves. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. 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. I want the system to be better. 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. 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: Maybe next segment. A teacher wants to stay. But we need to have real evaluation systems, which is what the union has been focused on, so that teachers are really judged fairly. Find low everyday prices and buy online for delivery or in-store pick-up 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. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? endobj 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 /Rotate 0 Feb 22, 2013. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. WEINGARTEN: No one, you know, teachers in at least our union would be the first to tell you, we rail against this system in some ways as much as Geoff and Michelle. We can't have our school system running like this. Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. << %PDF-1.3 WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). >> [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. And what we're finding in some schools we should spread throughout all the schools in this nation. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? /Rotate 0 Thanks to all of our guests. /Properties << Why is that such a frightening concept? One of the things we were thinking about, we were covering songs from the civil rights era, from the '60s and '70s and people who fought for justice and equality. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. I think we all have to look in the mirror and say, what have we done wrong up until now and what do we need to do better? (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. 1h 51m. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. I'm just wondering. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. There's a problem with our system and who know that there are children in this country who are falling behind. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. SCARBOROUGH: Right. BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? SCARBOROUGH: Thanks a lot, Davis, way to go, man. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: How do we get to what you're saying, though? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] >> I want to talk about New York for one second. Waiting for Superman, a documentary about the mediocre public school system in the U.S., uses both techniques to great effect. SCARBOROUGH: 15 seconds. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. /ExtGState << There are winners and losers. We have to go to break. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. 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. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. It was so heartbreaking to see her upset and all of the other children around her not being called and not being picked. endstream But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. Ravitch says that a study by Stanford University economist Margaret Raymond of 5000 charter schools found that only 17% are superior in math test performance to a matched public school, and many perform badly, casting doubt on the film's claim that privately managed charter schools are the solution to bad public schools. We actually have to change the political environment. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. 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.
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