[38] The documentary was directed, filmed, and edited by Julie Cavanagh, Darren Marelli, Norm Scott, Mollie Bruhn, and Lisa Donlan. So look, all of us on this stage, whether it's Geoffrey or Michelle or Davis, myself, the two of you, we all care passionately about the children. 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? If I had it my way, I would make damn sure that I get a teacher that CAN teach in his position and have him get a job else where. But can we really get Geoffrey Canadas in every public high school across America? By Paul Finch . Download the Watch OWN app and access OWN anytime, anywhere. BRZEZINSKI: How old is she? That's when we come back as we dive into the issues presented in "Waiting For Superman." Thats just one of the great things that we see. This scene is an important one because it highlights how the acceptance of students into charter schools is determined by the luck of the draw and how some students are not able to enter into the public school of their choice solely because luck was not on their side. I get to spend a lot of time with the kids. If Anthony goes to Souza, odds are he'll enter high school three to five grade levels behind. The film recognizes how the American public plays an important role in helping to accomplish the reform goal of making American public schools great. WEINGARTEN: Theres nothing wrong with what Geoffrey just said. 57 percent of Daisys classmates won't graduate. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. From the Academy Award-winning Director of An Inconvenient Truth comes the groundbreaking feature film that provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. 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. CANADA: This is why I think this is such an important movie. You don't have all sorts of external rules. They said, look, this work is hard. It reveals that the two major problems of education are bad teachers and the unions that protect them. The lottery in this movie is a metaphor. Why did you pick this topic? Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. John leads the show me campaign which is dedicated to raising awareness and highlighting successful schools. CANADA: Sure. This is a movie about imperialism, the impact of good/bad 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. An examination of the current state of education in America today. Geoffrey Canada has done it. Ravitch says that a study by Stanford University economist Margaret Raymond of 5000 charter schools found that only 17% are superior in math test performance to a matched public school, and many perform badly, casting doubt on the film's claim that privately managed charter schools are the solution to bad public schools. No one can go home and stick their head in the sand. the Terms and Policies, and to receive email from Rotten Tomatoes. Don't make -- Im tired, man, I wake up at 3:30 in the morning. 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. 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. We're here at the site of our education nation summit launching today at NBC News and MSNBC. Waiting for "Superman" is a 2010 American documentary film written and directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. 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. How do you get past that? SCARBOROUGH: As far as -- well -- LEGEND: Why is there a cap? When I see from my own experience as a school teach are for six years when evaluations didn't work and less than 20 percent of them think that evaluations work right now. Take a look. They asked Rhee whether the pressure on teachers led them to cheat. 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. A superpowered Lana Lang hits Lex in the face with one deadly blow, so Brainiac is forced to crawl off the dying. Clark is on the verge of becoming a father and him and Lois are prepping for the arrival of the child. SCARBOROUGH: Right. The film follows several families as they attempt to gain access to prominent charter schools for their children. I want to say something about what John just said. 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. That was teachers talking to each other and talking to the world about what teachers needed. You can't do it with the district rules and the union contracts as they are in most districts. We spruced up -- modernized the building. I cry for him sometimes. "[9] Scott Bowles of USA Today lauded the film for its focus on the students: "it's hard to deny the power of Guggenheim's lingering shots on these children. GLORIA: Im just so afraid for him. " Waiting for Superman " is the fifteenth and final episode of the second season of Superman & Lois, and the thirtieth episode overall. Outside The Walls, Halstead, Kansas 508 likes 21 talking about this Taking ministry outside the walls of the church through music, teaching, and service . Verified reviews are considered more trustworthy by fellow moviegoers. Make sure the tenure is not ever construed as a job for life. 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). Geoffrey Canada. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. 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. There are winners and losers. I can only praise the script and direction, Gregory Smith did a brilliant job with the episode, both his vision for the show and episode to his direction, the man is perfect for the show and having the same person whom did the premiere is just perfect. I can't remember the last time I got so caught up in a documentary. And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. Terms and Policies And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? "[14] Geraldo Rivera praised the film for promoting discussion of educational issues. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); WatchDocumentaries.com | Games | Quizzes | Contact |Privacy & Terms | Manage Cookies |Advertise | DMCA. Lesley Chilcott, Writer: Waiting for Superman Episode aired Jun 28, 2022 TV-PG IMDb RATING 8.4 /10 959 YOUR RATING Rate Action Adventure Drama Chrissy Beppo, with the authorization of the Department of Defense, has a message for the people of Smallville, not only is the merging of planets real, it is happening. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? Bryan Singer, fresh from making X-Men have the X-FACTOR, was on the crest of a wave. Fan Casting Superman (& What that means for the World) Nubbo's DCU- Part 3 by Siegel & Shuster. I started to count the public schools that I was driving by. 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. With the way things are in America (being the laughing stock of the world of education), it is easy to see why we are: all of our teachers are terrible. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? By the nature of who my family is. Today is her graduation, and she's not allowed to go because do I owe some tuition. The Mephistophelian Mr. Mxyzptlk is waiting out of sight as his pawns fight. "[22] Anderson also opined that the animation clips were overused. It didn't even occur to me. schools. 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. Already I am getting worked up over the issues that this documentary has risen, and I have only talked about a fraction of what this entire example of documentation has shown. And I think seeing what's possible in this film is very inspiring. 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. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. "[21] Melissa Anderson of The Village Voice was critical of the film for not including enough details of outlying socioeconomic issues, writing, "macroeconomic responses to Guggenheim's querygo unaddressed in Waiting for "Superman," which points out the vast disparity in resources for inner-city versus suburban schools only to ignore them. 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. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. Coming Soon, Regal We increased attendance rates. All we're going to do is pay good teachers more money. Now, I have never been that big of a fan of math. Statistical comparisons are made between the different types of primary or secondary educational institutions available: state school, private school, and charter school. What have you been able to do with them? Were going to talk to in a second and thats where Jeff Zucker told me I needed to go. "Geraldo at Large." 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. 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. Show Superman and Lois Radio, Ep Superman and Lois Radio Season 2 - Episode 15: "Waiting for Superman" - Jul 3, 2022 Yet, we are so poorly funded in education due to all of the money being spent on prisons, detention centers, and any other little problem that is little in comparison. However, due to this battle between all of them happening when the worlds were merging for Ally's plan, the problem of space being a vacuum might not have been an issue at the time. Waiting On Superman? Randi we'll let you get a response in here and also, Mika, what we're going to do is figure out where everybody agrees. And that still scared the hell out of the Washington union. Waiting For "Superman" (DVD) From the Academy Award-winning Director of An Inconvenient Truth comes t he groundbreaking feature film that provides an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. They want to know what good teaching looks like and they want to emulate it. Educational reception and allegations of inaccuracy. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. "[13] Variety characterized the film's production quality as "deserving every superlative" and felt that "the film is never less than buoyant, thanks largely to the dedicated and effective teachers on whom Guggenheim focuses. I think if we actually got to what constitutes a good teacher and had that kind of standard we'd all be in the same place on that and there are about 50 or 60 districts right now, I made a proposal in January about how to overhaul evaluation. Davis, god bless you. It's not about charter schools. Didn't get an answer on that. Waiting for "Superman" / Show other versions (2) Examines public education in the United States and uncovers the ways in which American public education has declined. The filmmakers deliberately kept the camera on certain students and their families, like Nakia and Bianca, in order to show how those who did not get into charter schools felt extremely disappointed and emotional because they had hoped to be accepted into a schoolthat would not fail them. Just because you win a few games all of a sudden makes a school great? Definitely interesting, and in different, more balanced hands it has potential for a great, great documentary, sadly this comes across as an average offering that fails to address both sides of the issue adequately. And when you say that, people say you're attacking teachers. Within two months, the class that was said to be the best in tenth grade math became the absolute worst. WEINGARTEN: John. DAISY: I want to be a nurse. He dramatizes this failure in a painfully direct way, says what is wrong, says what is right. Throughout the documentary, different aspects of the American public education system are examined. Ultimately they want the tools and conditions in order to do that. What are your thoughts? Explain to me how that is good for children. I said mommy wanted you to stay in your school and she finished my sentence. Somebody who's fighting for kids like Daisy is John Legend. $6.4M, Runtime: Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. 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. Being in one of the best public school systems in America, I thankfully did not have to deal with most of the problems that are expressed in this documentary. What? One of them is Nakia. So we're going to differentiate and we're going to recognize and reward the highest performing teachers and we're going to look at the lowest performing teachers and we're going to remove them from the system. 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. Waiting for Superman.2010. SCARBOROUGH: You mean against -- RHEE: Against Fenty, my boss. But at least it balanced that out by stating a few truths as well about the education system. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. By creating an account, you agree to the Electric Kinney, Critics Consensus: Wall Streets Stock Is Down, RT25: Celebrating 25 years of Rotten Tomatoes. & 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. But what got to me most was the economic side of this problem. Watch Waiting For Superman: Geoffrey Canada Interview, Watch Waiting For Superman: Lesley Chilcott Interview, Watch Waiting For Superman: Shock And Awe Animation, Watch Waiting For Superman: Michelle Rhee, There is a scene in which Bianca, one of the little girls, is reading from a book about someone taking apples and bringing them into the city to sell. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you think that most of the kids in D.C. are getting a crappy education right now? Yes, a 10. BRZEZINSKI: Why not inspire them with pay? GUGGENHEIM: Absolutely. Each is eager to get an education, but in a system riddled with ineffective teachers, staggering dropout rates and schools that are literally falling apart, the odds are more than stacked against them. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. John, tell us how you got involved in this. You're almost there! And systems that actually help create continuous improvement. "[7] On Metacritic it has a score of 81% based on reviews from 31 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". Come on out. Waiting for Superman is a 2010 American documentary film directed by Davis Guggenheim and produced by Lesley Chilcott. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. And that most of them are getting a really crappy education right now. [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. It's about those kids. You could fail those kids for another 20 years, everybody keeps their job, nobody gets the go. SCARBOROUGH: Okay. I'll admit it really bothered me how much they were glorifying education as being the answer to all things. SCARBOROUGH: If she's given the chance. RHEE: I don't think they are. These high-performing charters are going in and they're reaching every kid and they're sending 90 percent of their kids to college. But it's not just Harlem -- if my movie, I call it, they're breaking a sound barrier. "[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. We applaud everybody for joining us on this stage. limited, Release Date (Streaming): I know, but you didn't have enough money. If I have kids, I don't want kids to be in this environment. Feb 15, 2011, Box Office (Gross USA): WEINGARTEN: Let me -- SCARBOROUGH: If it wasn't about education, I mean, what was it about? SCARBOROUGH: Michelle, let me ask you this. A lot of times, the unions, for instance, were fighting to -- fighting the right to have more charters in New York. SCARBOROUGH: Not a Bush apostle. Michelle and I love great teachers. We as a country have to get together and have a conversation like this and say how do we let every kid win? JOHN LEGEND, SONGWRITER: Well, it's an interesting story because I was making this album "Wake-Up." (END VIDEO CLIP) BRZEZINSKI: And there are kids that don't make it. 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. Let's do this right now and let's look at the best contract in the nation in terms of eliminating ineffective teachers and let's make that the standard across America. Just finished my third viewing of THE SUICIDE SQUAD. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve change through the stories of five students and their individual struggles and triumphs. Because what is wrong with what he's saying? Waiting for "Superman" - YouTube Watch this movie on YouTube Waiting for "Superman" This full-length movie is available on YouTube. Activity . 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. 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. 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. By Roy Schwartz Nov 1, 2017 . Angry at the school board, angry at the people in charge, and sparks a feeling of change that needs to happen. There are answers and people want to say the answer is this. The issue is, and we saw it and heard it in the town hall today a lot, we need to have instruments like they do in every other business to effectively judge and assess teachers. 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. Waiting For Superman Lyrics [Verse 1] She's watching the taxi driver, he pulls away She's been locked up inside her apartment 100 days She says "Yeah, he's still coming, just a little bit late He. And that's something that no parent wants their child to ever be a witness or to hear when they're going to school. We increased graduation rates. No one wants lousy teachers. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. Read critic reviews. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Daisy and her parents have found one other option. BRZEZINSKI: Welcome back. DC Comics Reveals New Wal-Mart Exclusive Original Superman Story by Tom King and Andy Kubert Bounding Into Comics Superman: Up in the Sky (2019-) #4 eBook King, Tom, Kubert, Andy, Anderson, Brad, Kubert, Andy, Hope, Sandra, Anderson, Brad: Kindle Store Judith and Jose have decided to enter Daisy into the Kipp lottery. The All-American hero Superman has dealt a devastating blow to the country that adopted him when he arrived as a feeble alien immigrant from the planet Krypton in 1938: He has renounced his US. Just below that it reads "Ticket Confirmation#:" followed by a 10-digit number. Chrissy Beppo, with the authorization of the Department of Defense, has a message for the people of Smallville, not only is the merging of planets real, it is happening. Stay up to date with the latest trends that matter to you most. GUGGENHEIM: Those kids can't learn. David Guggenheim's documentary, Waiting for "Superman," addresses a broken education system that seems impossible to fix. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The space with the Xs is for all of the fifth grade students moving into the sixth grade for next year. What if I made a movie that gets people to care about other peoples children and fight for other people's children as much I fight for mine. Get the freshest reviews, news, and more delivered right to your inbox! We'll come back and continue this. Were here to talk about the movie, to talk about education. SCARBOROUGH: No doubt about it. SCARBOROUGH: We really had. Her local high school has golf and water polo teams, a state-of-the-art drama theater and amazing test scores. That means politically get involved. 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. People -- but this room needs to get bigger. I think we all need to take more responsibility. Randi was talking about instead of focusing on bad teachers, focusing on good teachers. Waiting for Superman exposes an array of complex, complicated, persistent, and multi-layered historical and societal problems. Because politically, these -- the things that we were doing, closing down schools, firing teachers, moving principals, those were not politically popular things to do. I know they are. I want to take a moment and talk about a particular class that this film reminded me of. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. RHEE: Heres the thing. There is a perception out there that is the union that is standing in the way of principals firing bad teachers. SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. It's must-see TV. My B average turned into a failing grade. Back then, the world was waiting for the man from Krypton to return. And we need to have good evaluation systems. 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. Buy or rent 0:00 / 2:27 Waiting for "Superman". They won't be able to see your review if you only submit your rating. We're also joined by Deborah Canny of the Harlem Village Academy. Top subscription boxes right to your door, 1996-2023, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates, Love Them First Lessons from Lucy Laney Elementary, Thomas Sowell: Common Sense in a Senseless World, The Day The Music Died: The Story of Don McLean's American Pie, Summer of Soul (or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised). A good education, therefore, is not ruled out by poverty, uneducated parents or crime and drug-infested neighborhoods. Orlando Magic . WEINGARTEN: Yes. Thank you so much. I just heard a story, I met a teacher the other day. END VIDEO CLIP BRZEZINSKI: All right. Why is that such a frightening concept? We wont be able to verify your ticket today, but its great to know for the future. It is impossible and we can fix it and I think that's what this movie gets to. That's not the case with all charter schools across America. While he briefly acknowledges views to the contrary, he does not correctly delve into the negative material associated with this subject with the same tenacity he does with the positive-thinking figures he documents. Thank you for joining us. NAKIA: The public schools in my neighborhood don't add up to what I want from her. First of all, can we start by, we want to thank you for coming here. And that is a concept that is so necessary. An examination of the current state of education in America today.An examination of the current state of education in America today.An examination of the current state of education in America today. Where does the union take some responsibility in this? DAISY: Isnt that when people play and they win money. It was about a whole range of other issues. Crap? And I was hurt. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Is there a possibility? WEINGARTEN: We need to help them do that for all of our kids. We can't have our school system running like this. And yet, the money (a good chunk (too good of a chunk)) goes right into sports programs that just burn the money, waste time and energy, and provides nothing. 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. I've never seen anything like it in my life. How do you explain that to a child? I've been amazed by what's possible. What's Mayor Bloomberg doing right? Sep 24, 2010 So the kids who came to us in 8 plus 3 they would couldn't the like this. That's so important to help level the playing field for kids who may be disadvantaged. We should let Randi respond. It's not sexy to vote in the midterms but it matters who, you know -- BRZEZINSKI: Oh, yes it is. It aired on June 28, 2022. 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? 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. GEOFFREY CANADA, PRES. WEINGARTEN: Yeah, of course. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. 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.

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