SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. I want the system to be better. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. /Parent 1 0 R /Contents 30 0 R [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. 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. ANTHONY: Its bittersweet to me. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. >> /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Take a moment. WEINGARTEN: John. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] I like to follow the evidence. And that is a concept that is so necessary. LEGEND: I think there needs to be an understanding in our community when we fight for our kids we're fighting for our community. 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). I actually have teachers in my family who really think is this is a terrific movie because it exposes for them how complicated it is, how important it is to get great teachers in the classroom and what a difference they can make. An examination of the current state of education in America today. [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. << PG. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. << Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Trying to hide the fact that I had been balling my eyes out, I said I can't -- I knew how this was going to end and I was still crying. You know that process has to be fixed. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times. It's about figuring out what works in charter schools and exporting that across America. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. /T1_1 20 0 R >> 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 Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. Thats just one of the great things that we see. The union itself has instead of focusing on good teachers and how we need to help them, give them the tools and conditions, we have always focused on, you know, the due process protections. What's the big takeaway from "Waiting For Superman"? When you have kids from Harlem going there with first grade reading proficiency and science proficiency and they leave three years later with 100 percent proficiency, it just -- at some point it becomes a moral issue. Thanks to all of our guests. 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. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To come see, geography and love, thats it. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. What are your thoughts? Weve seen some innovation spread more than one place. 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. How do you explain that to a child? We love good teachers. E]D[JWlwH{,j73?Mazd. There's a complete and utter lack of accountability for the job that we're supposed to be doing, which is producing results for kids. We even tolerate mediocre teachers. What have you been able to do with them? Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. LEGEND: Yes. 3 0 obj Wouldn't that have been better? In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. It's happening in D.C. 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. We have to fix this thing and it means the adults have to take leadership. /Properties << Because I seen what you do, Ive seen what Deborah Kinney has done, Ive seen what a lot of people have done out there and it seems to me, the model is find an extraordinary person, put them in a school, let them run that school. The attendance and the schools itself. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. /Font << I went up and I saw a revolution, a revolution that you helped start. That's amazing. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't you want her to go to a regular public school in your neighborhood? ?zBzD%YC1_PVu,fkGsM'2Hnm^]6_1W|qpff&,+y cWoM~UNxa*_EE}=}z/P__~:Y)z `'4Q!-ccE"?6HD6JW (b]Jl BP> The film also examines teacher's unions. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? SCARBOROUGH: Right. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. Waiting for Superman.2010. /GS0 18 0 R Randi said something that was fascinating. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. Fox News. Ht6R*bs7n& But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. /T1_1 57 0 R /ExtGState << She said Washington, D.C. even on its best day, wasn't like New York City on its worst day. 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. /Contents 36 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Geoffrey Canada, some remarkable things are happening in Harlem. 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. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. Will they give him a million dollars for re-election if he keeps you in your position? [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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. 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. "Geraldo at Large." Nakia joins us here tonight. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. After half a year of teaching, I talked to her yesterday, she had brought her kids a year -- more than a year and a half ahead. BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. 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. We'll hear from the audience as well. SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisys path to medical school begins with eighth grade algebra which she'll need to take when she moves up to Stevenson Middle School. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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? It just came out this week. We'll be right back. There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. 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. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. /GS0 18 0 R endobj Seventy-eight percent of them, this is not our survey, this was their survey, said a union was absolutely essential to them to try and stop school politics or principal abuses. I was really tired. /T1_0 24 0 R 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. >> Why not? All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, /T1_0 24 0 R /Properties << Even during the MSNBC town hall today, there were teachers who say I don't care about tenure. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? CANADA: Can I just say this -- [ applause ] this is the one area and Ive heard, Ive heard this suggested. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. The documentary follows >> Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. BRZEZINSKI: What was wrong with what she was doing? BRZEZINSKI: All right. /Pages 1 0 R There are really, really bad charter schools across America. But you did. There are core values we have to have. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. RHEE: I don't think they are. The site's consensus states: "Gripping, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Waiting for "Superman" is an impassioned indictment of the American school system from An Inconvenient Truth director Davis Guggenheim. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. endobj 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. 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. How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. 2 0 obj Walk in and I still want every kid to win. I knew -- as Davis said, I knew what was going to happen before she knew what was going to happen. SCARBOROUGH: All right, Davis, Davis, you said at the beginning you didn't want to get involved in this project. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. So they were trying to impose a cap on the number of charter schools that could be had in New York. 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. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. BRZEZINSKI: Please help us welcome founder and CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, Geoffrey Canada, Washington D.C.'s school's chancellor, Michelle Rhee, American Federation of Teacher's president Randi Weingarten and filmmaker Davis Guggenheim. /Filter /FlateDecode >> SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. /Type /Page Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. /GS0 47 0 R /Im0 19 0 R 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. endobj BRZEZINSKI: Exactly. %PDF-1.3 David Guggenheims Waiting for Superman looks at how the American public school system is failing its students and displays how reformers have attempted to Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. /Properties << I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. >> Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. [38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. "[11] Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an A, calling it "powerful, passionate, and potentially revolution-inducing. 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. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. WebSummaries. 10 0 obj You do not come off as the hero of this movie. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. /TT0 48 0 R SCARBOROUGH: It really is. I said what I if I made a different kind of movie from a parents' point of view? LEGEND: Who your state senator is. 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. /Count 5 I have a good feeling about this. GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. The film shows how the audience members, filled with prospective students and their families, all sit with apprehensive looks on their faces as they anxiously listen to the names and numbers of the children who are called and are therefore accepted into the charter school by luck of the draw. BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? 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. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. 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. A teacher wants to stay. I'm feeling it. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The only disagreement that I think our union has had in terms of the way in which things have gone, is that our folks have desperately wanted to have a voice in how to do reform. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. 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. /GS1 17 0 R 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're not attacking teachers.
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