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Rhee’s big legacy: Being a whirlwind
- 10-13-2010
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Blog by Valerie Strauss/Washington Post
She came in like a whirlwind, kicking up dust wherever she went, and now, Michelle Rhee, all-powerful chancellor of D.C. public schools, is leaving after three years, securing her place in the history of D.C. public education as, well, mostly a whirlwind. Larry Cuban, the Stanford University educator and former superintendent, had it right when he predicted on this blog last month that Rhee would wind up being no more than a footnote in a doctoral dissertation, just like Hugh Scott, the first African American superintendent in Washington D.C., who served in the early 1970s. Why? Because the kind of business-driven, standardized test-centric reforms that Rhee championed, with the full support of Education Secretary Arne Duncan, are guaranteed not to help improve troubled schools. They can’t work because they don’t address the most basic issues confronting students and teachers. (more…)
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