waiting for superman documentary transcript

WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. /Type /Pages One of the reasons for the high test scores, writes Ravitch, is that many charter schools expel low-performing students to bring up their average scores. DAISY: I want to go to a medical college or a veterinarian college because I really want to become a surgeon. /Pages 1 0 R WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. BRZEZINSKI: What happens to these kids? schools. "[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. Web2010. 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. /Contents 30 0 R SCARBOROUGH: How do we do it, Geoffrey? WebView and compare WAITING,FOR,SUPERMAN,DOCUMENTARY,TRANSCRIPT on Yahoo Finance. RHEE: Yes, that's right. We can't wait and talk about this another seven, eight, ten years. It seems to me, Davis, that you done get -- teachers don't get evaluated like every other business. << Do you think it has characterized you fairly? And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. "Waiting for Superman" ( Superman & Lois), an episode of Superman & Lois. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Like around here, I mean, I want my kids to have better than what I had. RHEE: It was actually 12 percent that were proficient in reading but he picked the better statistic because actually, only 8 percent of our children were proficient in math. [17] The Wall Street Journal's William McGurn praised the film in an op-ed piece, calling it a "stunning liberal expos of a system that consigns American children who most need a decent education to our most destructive public schools. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? Because you would think that the parents of those children that Michelle was in there shaking up the system to save those children, if those parents would have rallied, but we have gotten so used to failure, we tolerate failure in places like D.C. and central Harlem and Detroit, we just tolerate that failure and we've got to say to this nation, no more. And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. 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. /MC0 31 0 R Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. Waiting for Superman is a documentary which investigates the different ways in which education is failing students and the development of the American public BRZEZINSKI: When we come back, we'll talk more about that. 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. >> /Filter /FlateDecode I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. 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. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. >> I'm feeling it. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. /T1_1 24 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. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. "[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. I like to follow the evidence. /GS0 18 0 R Geoffrey Canada: One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist. Sept. 23, 2010. }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} SCARBOROUGH: OK. You talked about it. GUGGENHEIM: The issue is not just lousy teachers. But I think that's false. And that is a concept that is so necessary. 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 have a good feeling about this. The film will focus on the times when Superman is younger, with an emphasis on how he balances his Kryptonian heritage with his human upbringing . We can't have our school system running like this. 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. [8], Roger Ebert gave the film 3.5 stars out of 4 and wrote, "What struck me most of all was Geoffrey Canada's confidence that a charter school run on his model can make virtually any first-grader a high school graduate who's accepted to college. We need to have great curriculum. & 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. IE 11 is not supported. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. SCARBOROUGH: Right. Compute answers using Wolfram's breakthrough technology & knowledgebase, relied on by millions of students & professionals. /T1_1 20 0 R There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. So even though we may disagree about that, what this film does, it creates a moment in time. Documentary. BRZEZINSKI: If you leave Washington, D.C. are you going to Newark? /GS1 17 0 R "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. I went up to a school up there. By the time they finish eighth grade, they will have doubled their math and reading scores. /GS0 47 0 R You cannot say -- you can't say, well, the problem with charter schools is they only serve some of the kids when in fact you are advocating for caps on those effective charter schools. We're in a crisis. Broadcast: Saturday, September 25, 2010. They couldn't add basic first grade skills, they couldn't have it. Having said that, we have all done too much about focusing on bad teachers. 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. 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. 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. BRZEZINSKI: All right. Let me answer your question first. 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. And I don't want to make this about the presumptive mayor. GUGGENHEIM: When the media asked me to make the film, I originally said no. The documentary follows It's shameful. As part of lifting the cap they wanted to make sure that there was accountability for everyone. 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. [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. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] Stevenson feeds into Roosevelt, one of the worst-performing schools in Los Angeles. 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. WEINGARTEN: Look, we have schools in New York, like the school that Steve Barr and I run, which has a union contract, we're 100 percent of the kids path the math regions. The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. >> And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. The reason is because we're allowed to give our teachers freedom and then hold them accountable for results. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] /GS0 18 0 R SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? Ht6R*bs7n& That means in the midterms. /T1_0 24 0 R << >> WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. How do we spread that from Harlem across America? I said I don't want to go up. SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? KENNY: Right. 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. What did you learn? I've never seen anything like it in my life. I know, but you didn't have enough money. We spruced up -- modernized the building. I mean, not all teachers are created equal. By the nature of who my family is. 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. /Font << [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. They have to go see this movie and have smaller conversations like this. How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. This is a transcript of "Waiting for Superman". /Parent 1 0 R Kids coming into middle school and fifth grade with first grade reading abilities, leaving in eighth grade with a 100 percent proficiency, outscoring kids in Scarsdale, New York. LEGEND: Yes. Because there is no downside to failure. /Kids [ 4 0 R 5 0 R 6 0 R 7 0 R 8 0 R ] We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. Are you feeling agreement? 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. 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. We have to go to break. These are your schools, your communities. 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're feeling a real sense of commitment. >> You know that process has to be fixed. SCARBOROUGH: Hes like Chuck Yager of the classroom. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. Davis, I want to go to you on this one. Michelle and I love great teachers. /Rotate 0 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.

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