I was really tired. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? 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. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. Sept. 23, 2010. 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. << WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. 8 0 obj I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. [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. 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. "[18] Kyle Smith, for the New York Post, gave the film 4.5 stars, calling it an "invaluable learning experience. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. The superintendent wants her to say. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. So there are teachers who are having this debate within the spectrum of your organization. GUGGENHEIM: And the stakes for them. >> SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] << Cross your fingers. It reveals that the two major problems How do we spread that from Harlem across America? SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. 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. Michelle, you have been on the wrong side of the debate over here. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. 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. 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. /ExtGState << They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. /Parent 1 0 R There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> "[12] The Hollywood Reporter focused on Geoffrey Canada's performance as "both the most inspiring and a consistently entertaining speaker," while also noting it "isn't exhaustive in its critique. Many of them. We have to go to break right now. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We're in a crisis. Davis, god bless you. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. >> And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. What are your thoughts? She was a teacher in Indianapolis. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. Thats just one of the great things that we see. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. This isn't some Hollywood drama or a romance flick. ANTHONY: I stayed back one grade. All of my kids have gone to public school. 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. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. RHEE: Thats correct. Rhee said that only a small number of teachers and principals cheated. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. /Properties << /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 ] KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. LEGEND: Who your state senator is. /Producer (Python PDF Library \055 http\072\057\057pybrary\056net\057pyPdf\057) GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. 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. 1. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. /GS0 18 0 R I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. 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. GUGGENHEIM: Those parents don't care. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. >> One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the /T1_0 52 0 R 3 0 obj Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. 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. This is why. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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 %PDF-1.3 /Type /Page I want to be a doctor and I want to be a veterinarian. What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? This is our country. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. WEINGARTEN: Im just -- that's why there was a cap from the early -- SCARBOROUGH: We have a lot of people that want get involved here. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. WebSynopsis. And it started to haunt me, the idea that kids in my own neighborhood, and I live in a pretty good neighborhood, aren't getting what my kids have. >> >> 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. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. Most will go to John Phillip Souza, which the "Washington Post" called an academic sink hole. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. What's going on here? Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. 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. << I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. LEGEND: This is a civil rights issue. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. 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. /Font << BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll be joined -- SCARBOROUGH: One thing we do agree on -- BRZEZINSKI: We have to go. Yes, first or second grade skills. GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. /MC0 34 0 R 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 want the system to be better. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? 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. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. We spruced up -- modernized the building. (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. 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. Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. 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? /Pages 1 0 R SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. 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? That's amazing. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. 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). WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. Waiting for Superman. The film shows how Geoffrey Canadas solution to this problem was to create charter schools that would give children and their parents more options within the public school system and would hopefully raise academic performance, decrease dropout rates, andincrease the number of students who attend college. I'm just wondering. And we need to have good evaluation systems. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." 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. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. In a documentary called Waiting for Superman, contemporary education issues that the U.S. has been facing for several decades are addressed.