By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. 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). And that means get involved. Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. 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. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. I mean I think that's what this whole debate is about in many ways. 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. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} 4 0 obj We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Font << 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. Cross your fingers. The principal wants her to stay. BRZEZINSKI: No. This is about changing the political environment that we're operating in. Waiting For Superman was more widely released than any other documentary, and among the highest-grossing documentaries of 2010. [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.) I want to hear what some of those steps are, specific ones. Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. 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. >> /Length 866 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. Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. We increased attendance rates. Geoffrey Canada. Your last really big film was "Inconvenient Truth." We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. /Type /Page You talked about evaluations like every other business. /GS0 18 0 R Are you feeling agreement? /Parent 1 0 R GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. 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. WEINGARTEN: The issue in terms of the D.C. election was our members and others really like Vincent Gray. These are your schools, your communities. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. 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. That youre not going to look American with our 15,000 school system and say we're going to charter them, that's just not going to happen in my lifetime. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. /ExtGState << WEINGARTEN: I think look, again, we had a moment in time where we actually got to an agreement. But the issue in terms of the election, went far further than education. So it's important to understand how this is locked down here in D.C. and in New York. RHEE: Heres the thing. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. It reveals that the two major problems We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. If I want something for her and I cant get it from there, I'm going to find an alternative. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. /Parent 1 0 R You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. Come on out. Final words with our panel, next after a short break. [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." Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. >> This is why. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? GUGGENHEIM: Whats really -- people -- when I hear this conversation, I want to bring it back to parents. 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. Anthony's class visits the Seed School, the first urban public boarding school in the country. This is our country. In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. The film also examines teacher's unions. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. Documentary. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. RHEE: I'm just wondering, if the AFT was putting a million dollars into mayoral campaigns all across the country just based on who the teachers liked, I would buy that argument. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? The answer is we need great public education for all of our schools. These students range in Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. That is the problem. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. Webwaiting for superman full transcriptred gomphrena globosa magical properties 27 februari, 2023 / i beer fermentation stages / av / i beer fermentation stages / av SCARBOROUGH: Its about jobs. The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. I have a 12-year-old that goes to public school. Why were you frightened to send her to school. stream 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. [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. 7 0 obj RHEE: Yes, that's right. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lets get started. SCARBOROUGH: What we hear, Randi, morning after morning after morning from progressives, from conservatives, from Republicans, from Democrats, from independents, seems to be the same thing. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. Explain to me how that is good for children. BRZEZINSKI: Nakia, thank you. We need to have great curriculum. We spruced up -- modernized the building. SCARBOROUGH: Crying uncontrollably because it is unbelievable, some of the conditions that our kids are forced to learn in right now. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. 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 Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. In this incredible movie, "Waiting For Superman," Davis Guggenheim introduces to us some of the heroic parents who struggle to provide a better future for their children. /T1_1 24 0 R Geoffrey, let me ask you this question. RHEE: Thats correct. Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. Teaching standards are called into question as there is often conflicting bureaucracy between teaching expectations at the school, state, or federal level. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. /Type /Page GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. Yet instead of examining this critical issue objectively, the movie Waiting for "Superman" cites false statistics in their effort to scapegoat teachers, unfairly blaming them for all the failures of our urban schools. SCARBOROUGH: Why are you going to get fired? 5 0 obj 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. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. "[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. 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 I went up there, Jeff Zucker pushed me to go up there one day. We're going to lose our nation. WebSummaries. You don't come off well in this movie. >> Geoffrey Canada has done it. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. >> But I think that's false. If I get in, they give me a better chance in life. /Properties << We love good teachers. Take a look. I mean, from my perspective, it really seemed like what was scary to people was this idea of beginning to differentiate folks. The documentary follows /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? GUGGENHEIM: And fight for these kids. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. You are not exactly what some would consider to be a conservative filmmaker. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. It's about those kids. 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. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. 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. Guggenheim, Davis. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Right. Eighth graders at Kipp L.A. Prep get triple the classroom time in math and science. You believe it. >> We're not attacking teachers. That's amazing. 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. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] NAKIA: I was disturbed. & CEO, HARLEM CHILDRENS ZONE: I think the real important issue for us to face as Americans is if we don't fix this, we will not remain a great country. 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. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. >> /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] You do not come off as the hero of this movie. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANTHONY: I want to go to college, get an education. The attendance and the schools itself. BRZEZINSKI: Thank you. I think we all need to take more responsibility. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? /GS0 18 0 R LEGEND: We need to be clear, you know, sometimes it sounds like everybody is on the same team up here because we all sound like we agree. John, tell us how you got involved in this. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] BRZEZINSKI: Why didn't they add up? SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. "Geraldo at Large." << 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. SCARBOROUGH: It was about education. /Resources << S/p?G4lt(20}G(8!h-D! 5 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. Go. SCARBOROUGH: John Legend, final thoughts? Since many charter schools are not large enough to accept all of their applicants, the selection of students is done by lottery. Waiting for Superman. Because I know he's easily influenced to do things he shouldn't do. endstream And the idea that we now can do it means that we have a very moment right now to say let's take those things, let's take those ingredients and bring them into mainstream schools. We increased graduation rates. >> We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. And I was hurt. I'm feeling it. Why is that? By Stephen Holden. We're feeling a real sense of commitment. We can't achieve equality or humanity and justice for everybody if we can't make sure that every kid gets a good education. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. That's what our union has been trying to do for the last two years. And a lot of times some of the older civil rights organizations have historically aligned with the unions. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? I don't care what I have to do, I don't care how many jobs I have to obtain but she will go to college. In New York City, a group of local teachers protested one of the documentary's showings, calling the film "complete nonsense", writing that "there is no teacher voice in the film. GUGGENHEIM: Weve won the lottery. It took a little while to get the money straightened for this green light and 80 percent of the teachers voted for that agreement. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. We have to go to break right now. BRZEZINSKI: Randi, really quickly. NAKIA: Shes 7 now. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. I think he wants to do the right thing. [3], Geoffrey Canada describes his journey as an educator and recounts the story of his devastation when, as a child, he discovers that Superman is fictional, that "there is no one coming with enough power to save us.".
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