Скачать или смотреть "'Waiting for Superman' was the peak of charter triumphalism." - Wilson

"'Waiting for Superman' was the peak of what I talk about in the book as this kind of charter triumphalism, where you go to conferences and people would talk about what heroes everybody there was -- who were primarily white, of course, who were starting these networks, were involved in these networks. Look, that is nothing that we should be proud of.

"But at the same time, I understand the exuberance and I don't think the exuberance was unwarranted. And I think the exuberance was justified later by the results that many of these places. Look, if you go to a KIPP school, and this is not just my pulling data out of nowhere, this is the RAND study of KIPP that found that if you as a student, as a black student attended a KIPP middle school and a KIPP high school in succession, your chances of not just enrolling in a four-year college, but completing four-year college, which of course is a life-changing trajectory event, were now essentially equal to that of a white student. So this is an astonishing achievement. while that waiting for Superman period is cringy from today's perspective, it's not crazy that people got excited."