Because we talked to Randi before. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. /Font << "[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. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. Mika and I want to welcome you to this special hour. Where you tried to focus on good teachers in Washington. Natural Language; Math Input; Extended Keyboard Examples Upload Random. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. WEINGARTEN: Theres lots of -- look. SCARBOROUGH: Right. And we're going to figure out, we're going to get people together here. /MC0 62 0 R 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," 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. And that means get involved. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. BRZEZINSKI: They were picked off the street in a lottery. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. Guggenheim, Davis. BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av Is there any give here? The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. 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. It's must-see TV. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Next year, Anthonys class will move up to junior high. /Length 866 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. 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). 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. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Take a look at some of the reactions from just a few minutes ago as people watched this movie. 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. You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. 10 Video Games That Need a Live Action Adaptation, 2023's Most Anticipated Sequels, Prequels, and Spin-offs. (d acJ4@%Q8C/! We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. I get why that's good for the adults. WebFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. /Type /Page BRZEZINSKI: Its worked for you and for hundreds of kids in Harlem. /Parent 1 0 R No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. 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. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? The answer is no. Waiting for Superman.2010. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. 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. 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. NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. stream SCARBOROUGH: Thank you so much. 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. You don't come off well in this movie. DAISYS FATHER: Come on, Daisy, cross your fingers. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. I support public schools. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? 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? GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. "[30] Lastly, Ayers writes that "schools are more segregated today than before Brown v. Board of Education in 1954," and thus criticized the film for not mentioning that "black and brown students are being suspended, expelled, searched, and criminalized. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] I have a good feeling about this. 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. 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 Joe and I saw the movie a few days ago and we literally walked up Broadway, I think it was, in complete silence, both feeling very twisted and angry about what we had seen. << What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. It was not simply about education. 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. SCARBOROUGH: All right. What were your thoughts when the number did not come up? You went into the lottery system for your daughter. 9 0 obj But Id like -- I think there is a disconnect here that John Legend talks about. Come on out. There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. The issue is about how we create the best environment for 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. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. JOHN LEGEND, SONGWRITER: Well, it's an interesting story because I was making this album "Wake-Up." /Filter /FlateDecode But it's also frustrating when you know what's possible can't be replicated because there are barriers in the way. Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. /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 ] stream GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Font << American schools face frequent budget cuts, but its not all about the money. The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. /Rotate 0 /Properties << The film also examines teacher's unions. I think that we've all I mean Davis said it when he said he passed three public schools. We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. One of these amazing children is a boy named Anthony. I've never seen anything like it in my life. 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. Through the stories of five children who wanted to attend a charter school, the film shows how one child was accepted and another child was accepted from the wait list while three children were not accepted at all. Randi said something that was fascinating. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. 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? And we have to have everyone, even parents, recommitted, you know, even school officials, district heads, superintendents, unions, all of us have to move off a position of self-interest like I do with my own kids, sending them to private school, like the unions do, I think, preserving the status quo. /Im0 19 0 R Davis, god bless you. 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. 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. We can run the school the way we want, which is to give our teachers the power to teach. 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). SCARBOROUGH: It really is. We increased attendance rates. And this is not America, the idea that one kid could have a great education and one kid can't. BRZEZINSKI: Its very hard to watch this movie. Nakia joins us here tonight. 1. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. Sept. 23, 2010. BRZEZINSKI: What are you saying, Randi, what is he saying? >> /GS0 47 0 R 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. >> I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. /MC0 28 0 R >> /GS1 17 0 R /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? Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. And we need to have good evaluation systems. 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. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. "[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. /MC0 37 0 R CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. RHEE: Heres the thing. There are winners and losers. The fact that there are currently not enough spaces in American schools should also be viewed as one of the primary factors defining their failure to meet the needs of students (Guggenheim). It's happening in D.C. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. How do you explain that to a child? It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. >> 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. 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. That means politically get involved. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. Have your mom and dad told you about the lottery? The movie's major villains are the National And what the teachers wanted in Washington were the tools and conditions for them to do their jobs. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the I mean, not all teachers are created equal. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? They'll talk about this issue. We have to go to break. /Parent 1 0 R /Font << >> DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. LEGEND: My last thing I would say, we have to realize that these kids are our kids. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? You think it was about -- let's be respectful. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. "[23], Author and academic Rick Ayers lambasted the accuracy of the film, describing it as "a slick marketing piece full of half-truths and distortions" and criticizing its focus on standardized testing. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. 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. If you look at what the Kipp schools have done or the uncommon schools, they've been able to replicate this model over and over. Why is that? I've been amazed by what's possible. Thank you for joining us. RHEE: I do. >> SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. Now it's happening in Houston. SCARBOROUGH: Why is it -- [ applause ] why is it that you have an area like Washington, D.C. that is 12 percent proficient in math?
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