>> There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. NAKIA: She felt it wasn't fair that other children were being picked and she was just as smart as they were and why not her. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You see the cages up here. 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. SCARBOROUGH: They can't. It affects good teachers, too. [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. SCARBOROUGH: Really quickly. 1. /ExtGState << endobj 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. I think sometimes there's a disconnect between them. Thank you for joining us. NAKIA: Yes. & 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. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] The Superman movie fans are waiting for Superman: Legacy will be released on 11 July 2025. >> We could say to everyone in education we have to give a couple of more hours. RHEE: You know what, heres the thing. Take a look. I want to ask you another really quick question and then go around to the rest of the panel. /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. RANDI WEINGARTEN, PRES., AMERICAN FEDERATION OF TEACHERS: Sure. /GS1 17 0 R /Type /Page CANADA: Sure. /GS1 17 0 R (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. 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. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. "Waiting for Superman," a fascinating new documentary, is drawing attention to the state of our public school, directed by Davis Guggenheim, who brought us Thank you so much for doing this and also sharing your story in the movie. In fact you come off quite badly. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. It is about working together to create problem solving contracts and ultimately, Michelle, it's not about you or I. WEINGARTEN: I live in New York -- RHEE: You put $1 million into a mayoral campaign. >> Fox News. SCARBOROUGH: Because we've been up to Harlem, we've seen what's happening up there. CANADA: Can I just tell you this? Waiting For "Superman" is an inside look at the problems with education in America. 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? 3 0 obj CANADA: Well you know what? 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. WebTRANSCRIPT: WAITING FOR SUPERMAN PANEL DISCUSSION WITH: NBC'S JOE SCARBOROUGH; NBC'S MIKA BRZEZINSKI;DAVIS GUGGENHEIM, DIRECTOR, BRZEZINSKI: Im sorry, we have news for our audience as well. WEINGARTEN: Yes. A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. /XObject << In fact, those are the very areas where he has success. They clearly illustrate that no matter the area, teachers are failing America's youth at an alarming rate.. We increased attendance rates. /CropBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Fantastic. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. But I think we have to get a layer deeper than just the platitudes that remain on the stage. Wouldn't that have been better? /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] Why is that such a frightening concept? We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. Most of them. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] 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. endobj >> First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. 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. >> << /Resources << The movie's major villains are the National 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. Waiting for Superman (song), a 2013 song by the American rock band Daughtry. That's amazing. SCARBOROUGH: You guys were great. /MC0 28 0 R 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. >> Teachers in this country want to make a difference in the lives of kids. /GS1 17 0 R BRZEZINSKI: And the reaction that we saw just moments ago was the same, these are people who know. WebShop for waiting for superman documentary transcript filetype:lua at Best Buy. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. So the question is, what's New York City doing right? WebWaiting for Superman/Transcript. What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? endobj SCARBOROUGH: Maybe next segment. Obviously at the end most people watching this movie teared up. This is where the work gets tough, because innovation, this is about innovation. /ExtGState << CANADA: There are two things. They'll talk about this issue. And while our guests enter the stage, let's show you a little clip of the movie, because "Waiting For Superman" is about our system, but what really gets to you in this movie is the individual stories of each child. Waiting For Superman may refer to: Waiting for "Superman", a 2010 documentary. endobj BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. National Assessment of Educational Progress, Bill Gates Goes to Sundance, Offers an Education, "How Davis Guggenheim's Documentary 'Waiting for "Superman"' Will Further Fuel the Education Debate -- New York Magazine - Nymag", "Waiting for Superman Movie Reviews, Pictures", "How did 'Waiting for 'Superman's' ' Davis Guggenheim become the right wing's favorite liberal filmmaker? She was a teacher in Indianapolis. We had at least 40 of us in one classroom and the teacher refused to teach. Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. You talked about evaluations like every other business. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you think she can do it? You tried to change things and chances are good, because of it, you're going to get fired. They said, look, this work is hard. WEINGARTEN: Let me get to both of these issues, let me see if I can conflate them. 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. [15] Deborah Kenny, CEO and founder of the Harlem Village Academies, made positive reference to the film in a The Wall Street Journal op-ed piece about education reform. I think he actually wants to do the right thing. The attendance and the schools itself. Waiting For Superman has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of the struggles students, families, The film is extremely eye-opening, showing just how bad a state most of our education systems are in. Be the first to contribute. >> /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. 4 0 obj 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. By Stephen Holden. It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. I have a good feeling about this. BRZEZINSKI: Is that a fair shot, Randi? You said OK we're not going to penalize bad teachers. Coming up next, MSNBC's going to re-air the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. 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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. I want to just ask Randi, you've been taking pot shots from everybody here on stage, including us at times.
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