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Rhee faces renewed scrutiny over depiction of students' progress when she taught - 0 views

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    The principal for whom Rhee worked said that there was "clear evidence of actual, knowing falsehood" in statements Rhee made about the magnitude of improvement in test scores for her students. Frederick Hess, who was not involved with that school or its faculty said : "There's simply no way with these data to say anything, good or bad, about Rhee's teaching performance,"
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    The principal for whom Rhee worked said Rhee's statements about the magnitude of improvement in test scores for her students were "clear evidence of actual, knowing falsehood." Frederick Hess, who was not involved with the faculty or school responded "There's simply no way with these data to say anything, good or bad, about Rhee's teaching performance,"
Victoria Schnettler

The Michelle Rhee You Don't Know - 0 views

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    A more personal view of a very influential educational reformer...sheds a little more light on the authenticity of Michelle Rhee.
Jonathan Becker

Michelle Rhee's Bipartisan School-Reform Movement and the Assault on Teachers -- New Yo... - 0 views

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    Once deified, now demonized, teachers are under assault from union-busting Republicans on the right and wealthy liberals on the left. And leading the charge from all directions is a woman most famous for losing her job: the former Washington, D.C., schools chancellor Michelle Rhee.
Georggetta Howie

Why StudentsFirst Supports Teachers' Right to Collective Bargaining - 0 views

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    Michelle Rhee shares a personal opinion on collective bargaining.
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Michelle Rhee: Education reform huckster - War Room - Salon.com - 0 views

  • "American students have improved substantially, in some cases phenomenally. In general, the improvements have been greatest for African-American students, and among these, for the most disadvantaged. The improvements have been greatest for both black and white 4th and 8th graders in math. Improvements have been less great but still substantial for black 4th and 8th graders in reading and for black 12th graders in both math and reading."
  • it should be stipulated that nobody's yet found a means or motive for cheating on NAEP surveys.
  • An exposé by USA Today reveals that scores of high-performing Washington schools displayed "extraordinarily high numbers of erasures on standardized tests. The consistent pattern was that wrong answers were erased and changed to right ones."
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  • [a]mong the 96 schools that were then flagged for wrong-to-right erasures were eight of the 10 campuses where Rhee handed out so-called TEAM awards." A
Jonathan Becker

The political education of Michelle Rhee - Ben Smith and Byron Tau - POLITICO.com - 1 views

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    "This is a game about power, and I think you have a vacuum on one side," he said. "She's concluded - and I think with some wisdom - that there's really no countervailing force that is well-funded, is well-organized. What I think she wants to build is an organization that can really step up and amass political support and play hardball."
Tara McDaniel

Ex-D.C. schools chief '100%' behind test scores probe - 1 views

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    Former District of Columbia Public Schools chancellor Michelle Rhee says she is "100% supportive" of a broader investigation into standardized test scores in the school district she used to oversee
Victoria Schnettler

Why Michelle Rhee is public enemy number one in education reform debate: She challenged... - 0 views

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    Is she really public enemy number ONE? Wow.
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