The answer is no. In response to this problem, many reformers, including Geoffrey Canada, have tried to look for solutions. He wrote "Shine," the theme song for "Waiting For Superman." /Rotate 0 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). [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.". SCARBOROUGH: They can't. 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. SCARBOROUGH: Do you think he's going to do the right thing now that the teachers union is giving him a million dollars? You don't come off well in this movie. 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. You think it was about -- let's be respectful. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] NAKIA: The schools in my area don't measure up as far as the reading is concerned, the math is concerned. We just don't want lousy teachers to be able to keep their jobs and kids not get an education. >> We're going to do it with a man who made this film and some of the people who were in it. I am the first one to say, that charter schools are not the answer. I think they put the money into this mayoral campaign because it was a symbol of reform in this country. SCARBOROUGH: Why would you spend a million dollars to defeat a mayor? Is there any give here? I know, but you didn't have enough money. & 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. 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. BRZEZINSKI: Okay. >> By the time she leaves Stevenson, only 13 percent of her classmates will be proficient in math. You don't have all sorts of external rules. DAVIS GUGGENHEIM: No. Sept. 23, 2010. /MC0 28 0 R << SCARBOROUGH: Right. We'll be joined also by Grammy award-winning singer/songwriter John Legend and our friend at "MORNING JOE" as well. But that isn't something that can't be, you know, worked out. You try to make reforms and it causes a problem. You say no one wants lousy teachers but there are a lot of really lousy teachers who are protected by this current system. 7 0 obj BRZEZINSKI: They were underperforming it. SCARBOROUGH: You were on the board for Harlem Village Academy. There was, as Geoff said, a sense that failure was tolerable, as opposed to a focus on success. There are really, really bad charter schools across America. endobj /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] John, tell us how you got involved in this. 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. CANADA: Look, no business in America would be in existence if it ran like this. 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. Thank you for joining us. RHEE: Were not going to be able to solve the problem going one city at a time. This is why. And it's more about a jobs program than it is about the kids. One of the saddest days of my life was when my mother told me Superman did not exist, the WEINGARTEN: This is not about the adults. Wouldn't that have been better? How do we let every kid -- SCARBOROUGH: There are two Americas. KENNY: Now studying Shakespeare, passing the regions in physics, passing the regions in chemistry, 100 percent in U.S. history across the board, all of them are going to go to college. KENNY: We catch them up to basic level and we accelerate them to proficient. How do you explain that to a child? And what teachers have told us is that focus instead on the tools and conditions we need to do our jobs. I actually don't -- I think we could continue one city at a time. Ravitch also writes that many charter schools are involved in "unsavory real estate deals" [31], In 2011, many news media reported on a testing score "cheating scandal" at Rhee's schools, because the test answer sheets contained a suspiciously high number of erasures that changed wrong answers to right answers. 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. It's shameful. LEGEND: Well, you know, there are plenty of constituencies that usually align with the union, for instance. /MediaBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] People couldn't believe you could do it. /GS0 47 0 R What have you learned as somebody who isn't a professional educator on what we need to do? SCARBOROUGH: What have you learned since getting involved? And the next morning Im driving my kids in the minivan to school and they go to a great private school in Los Angeles. WEINGARTEN: Michelle and I may disagree on the particulars of this, but there are about 50 or 60 districts that are using the proposal that we made and ultimately we think if we do that, if we fix teacher evaluations so it's about teacher development and evaluation, we can fix this problem. So let me say, because I get told a lot that Im teacher bashing. I think what's happened in places like Washington and I saw it compared to New York City. We'll be right back. I think he wants to do the right thing. Are you feeling agreement? Ht6R*bs7n& /Type /Page The good guys/heroes are low-income American parents, hoping to provide a good education for their children. And Im not going to pretend that you can just come in and snap your fingers and things are going to get better overnight. It looks like we don't have any synopsis for this title yet. Davis, god bless you. Film. Walk in and I still want every kid to win. Towards the end of the film, there is a segment that illustrates the charter school lottery as it takes place for different schools. We're turning to you now. 6 0 obj SCARBOROUGH: This is a civil rights issue? 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. /GS0 18 0 R It's going to be mommy's job to get you another school that's better. More importantly than our union, the new mayor is committed to it. /ArtBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] /Type /Page Our guests will include Governor Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Corey Booker and U.S. secretary of education Arne Duncan. /Rotate 0 Many of them. SCARBOROUGH: Davis? >> Where has the union misstepped to help us get to where we are today? Webwaiting for superman movie transcript+filetype:ppt+filetype:pdf. As young as Bianca is, she too displays this look of defeat as her name is not called (Guggenheim 1:32:56). 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. What happened there? 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? 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. /ProcSet [ /PDF /Text ] Documentary. Do you think it has characterized you fairly? 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. In some ways when we fought for sources for kids like my union did, we were fighting to help kids get what they needed. Geoffrey Canada: I was like what do you mean he's not real. Theres a lot of schools that I want to take you to Davis, great public schools where we are breaking the sound barrier, too. Let's go there and talk to the president of the American federation of teachers, Randi Weingarten. First, I loved that town hall today. MICHELLE RHEE, CHANCELLOR, D.C. PUBLIC SCHOOLS: Well, I think you should probably ask the union folks that question. Everyone in this room is feeling something powerful tonight. [16], The film has also garnered praise from a number of conservative critics. We need to get involved and take ownership over this and go to the schools and tutor, go to the schools and mentor. /Pages 1 0 R /BleedBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] 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. They said, look, this work is hard. 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. That's the first thing. We have to go to break. There are a couple of things leaders, in which we all are, could do. 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. And I couldn't understand that why did it take this much to go through all of this? Connecticut and Hartford education policy resources, Creating a Dual-Language Magnet School for Hartford Region, Sources on Trinity student protests since 2007, Jack Dougherty and Trinity College Educ 300 students, Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, An Uncommon Critique: How A Charter Networks Success Safeguards Student Experiences, The Evolution of Gender Inequality At Trinity College: A Study Through Different Publications, Higher Education for Dreamers After the Failed DREAM Act. There are also comparisons made between schools in affluent neighborhoods versus schools in poorer ones. You get to the nation's capital, the nation's capital, only 16 percent of students are proficient in math. Some of us have spent our lives working on behalf of children and teachers who teach children. And it's just -- it changes your perspective. DAISYS FATHER: Go like this. >> }>=Uw2cS=V. I9kZJw^EAOd j]Y[wl-e06E#/mlyTbE9f}@8 a/ ^} What's going on here? /TrimBox [ 0 0 595.27600 841.89000 ] SCARBOROUGH: Last in, first out. Of course, Washington has problems going back decades. We have to take ownership. BRZEZINSKI: These are compelling arguments that we all can agree on but, Randi, let me just put it to you this way. There are two Americas right now when it comes to education. Because we talked to Randi before. BRZEZINSKI: You can hear the distrust here. This is about the kids in the movie, and this is about how those of us on this stage help kids. CANADA: Sure. GUGGENHEIM: Ive seen the movie hundreds of times. They were the right things for kids but they made the adults incredibly uncomfortable. BRZEZINSKI: Ill tell you right now, Randi, I want to know after the break why we can't use pay to inspire teachers. JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good evening. [4][5][6] On Rotten Tomatoes the film has a "Certified Fresh" approval rating of 90% based on reviews from 118 critics. Tomorrow morning Joes going to be live from Learning Plaza. endobj And at the same time, have some due process so that we guard against our arbitrariness. We've been talking about the teacher town hall hosted by Brian Williams earlier today. But this is the issue that I think Ive been hearing that I just want to get clear. I love teachers. You cannot say we want more resources to go to kids when in fact in this city, Joel Klein is spilling $100 million a year to pay for teachers you saw it in the movie, who aren't actually teaching.