Michelle Rhee

What's Needed to Make Sure Innovation Is Working?

Bill Jackson | Posted 11.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Innovation, Education, Policy, Michelle Rhee, Teach for America, Education Reform, Politics News
Bill Jackson

The current flurry of activity at the federal level could lead people to (mistakenly) believe that the government is responsible for education success in America, not parents and (gasp!) local school boards.

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Making Teachers Unions Work for Students -- And All Teachers

Paras Bhayani | Posted 11.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Public Schools, Education, Charter Schools, Green Dot, Mayor Daley, Education Reform, Unions, Chicago Teachers Union, Cps, Chicago News
Paras Bhayani

Getting unions to prioritize compensation and not the strictures that constrain schools would require a tectonic shift in their priorities, but precedent for such reformed advocacy does exist.

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The New York Times Bizarrely Attacks Teachers -- Why?

Dan Brown | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media

Read More: Teacher Quality, Public Schools, Education, Arne Duncan, Michelle Rhee, Teacher Evaluation, School Accountability, New York Times, High-Stakes Testing, Teachers Union, Education Reform, Media News
Dan Brown

The editorial page in today's New York Times takes a bizarre pot shot at teachers. Teachers are demeaned by the Times as a destructive force when it comes to developing systems that work in schools.

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New Haven's Teacher Contract a Model? Not So Fast

Thomas W. Carroll | Posted 10.21.2009 | New York

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Houston, American Federation of Teachers, Arne Duncan, Teacher Performance Pay, Randi Weingarten, New York State, Charter Schools, Connecticut, u.s. Department of Education, Denver, School Reform, Education Reform, New York News
Thomas W. Carroll

The contract's approach to charter schools mandates unionization, guarantees no layoffs, preserves grievance procedures, and keeps in place staff transfer rights. Reform with a union twist, one might say.

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D.C. Mayor and City Council Blame Each Other for Shock Teacher Layoffs

Dan Brown | Posted 11.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Dc Council, Dcps, Vincent Gray, Eduction Reform, American Federation of Teachers, Charter Schools, No Child Left Behind, DC City Council, Washington Post, Teachers Union, Adrian Fenty, Teachers, Politics News
Dan Brown

D.C. Mayor Adrian Fenty and Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee announced that a reduction in force of public school teachers had become unavoidable, and schools are in full-on panic mode.

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Mass Teacher Layoffs in D.C. Amount To One Hell of a Power Play by Michelle Rhee

Dan Brown | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Dc Rif, Dcps, No Child Left Behind, Teachers Unions, Adrian Fenty, Teach for America, New York City Public Schools, Dc Reduction in Force, Education, Dc Schools, George PArker, Joel Klein, School Accountability, Standardized Testing, Education Reform, Nclb, High Stakes Testing, Wtu, Politics News
Dan Brown

Rhee's mislaid battle of gutting the union and purging veteran teachers will leave an experience and institutional knowledge vacuum that no quantity of super-caffeinated 22-year-old Yalies can remake.

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Why Send My Son to Public School?

Sam Chaltain | Posted 08.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Change, Education, Arne Duncan, Education Reform, Accountability, Politics News
Sam Chaltain

Any business school student also knows it's foolish to judge an organization's overall health based on a single measure of success. Yet the U.S. is the only nation with an accountability system based solely on standardized test scores.

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Jonathan Alter Joins the Teacher-Scapegoating Chorus: I'm Calling BS

Dan Brown | Posted 07.12.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Class Size, Time, President Obama, Time Magazine, Randi Weingarten, No Child Left Behind, Teach for America, Teacher Unions, Teacher, Barack Obama, Freedom Writers, Newsweek, Jonathan Alter, Dangerous Minds, Education Reform, Wendy Kopp, Washington University, Media News
Dan Brown

Obsessive focus on cleaning house and demanding expecting superhuman performance misses a larger point.

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The Single Best, Most Indispensable Essay on Reforming Education

Dan Brown | Posted 06.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: Uft, Teacher Quality, Michelle Rhee, Public Schools, Education, Education Week, Public Education Reform, Ronald Wolk, DC Public Schools, No Child Left Behind, Education Reform, Nea, Dropout Epidemic, Teacher Unions, Dan Brown, Politics News
Dan Brown

We need to understand what pushes these young people out the door, and we need to provide more substantive intervention to more students sooner.

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Hey. Nicholas Kristof and Michelle Rhee! Teachers Are the Keys, Not the Roadblocks to Reforming Schools

Dan Brown | Posted 04.23.2009 | Media

Read More: Teacher Quality, Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Class Size, Education, Will Okun, New York Times, Washington DC, Teachers Union, Nicholas Kristof, Teachers, Education Reform, Media News
Dan Brown

Nicholas Kristof's effusive essay on DC Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee left me with a sour taste. Here are a few snippets from Kristof's piece, in w...

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Thomas B. Edsall

Michelle Rhee Threatens End-Run Around Teachers' Union

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Richard Kahlenberg, American Federation of Teachers, Washington Teachers Union, Consortium for Research on Educational Accountability and Teacher Evaluation (CREATE), No Child Left Behind, Joel Klein, Teach for America, Adrian M. Fenty, d.c. Teaching Fellows Program, Create, Politics News

Michelle Rhee, education chancellor of the District of Columbia -- in charge of the worst performing public school system in the nation -- has laid do...

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"You're Either With Us or You're With the Status Quo": Privatization Supporters Push Obama to Pick Their Kind of Education Secretary

Dan Brown | Posted 01.06.2009 | Politics

Read More: New York City Public Schools, Michelle Rhee, Cabinet Pick, Amanda Ripley, Time Magazine, Education Trust, Barack Obama, Teacher Quality, Education Secretary, Education, Jon Schnur, David Brooks, Joel Klein, Linda Darling-Hammond, Washington Post, Education Reform, High Stakes Testing, Obama Cabinet, Obama's Cabinet, Politics News
Dan Brown

Wrap your arms around the testing mania of Joel Klein, or you're soft on accountability. Embrace Michelle Rhee's nuclear approach to administering schools, or you're a status quo-hugging wuss.

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David Brooks Made Me Wring My Hands: Obama and His Education Secretary Pick

Dan Brown | Posted 01.05.2009 | Media

Read More: Michelle Rhee, Linda Darling-Hammond, No Child Left Behind, New York Times, Naomi Klein, High-Stakes Testing, Nea, Barack Obama, Uft, Teacher Quality, Teacher Union, Aft, Shock Doctrine, David Brooks, Nclb, Joel Klein, School Accountability, Education Reform, Newt Gingrich, Cabinet Appointments, Media News
Dan Brown

In his most recent op-ed, David Brooks offers Americans a false choice between two distinct camps of education interests. Here's hoping our new president will sweep aside that brand of discourse.

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Uncertainty Over Obama Education Adviser

Alexander Russo | Posted 12.11.2008 | Politics

Read More: Education, Linda Darling-Hammond, Charter Schools, Education Secretary, Michelle Rhee, Arne Duncan, Obama Secretary of Education, Colin Powell, Janet Napolitano, John Kerry, Obama Presidency, Obama's Cabinet, Teach for America, Politics News
Alexander Russo

In education circles, there's no hotter topic than who is going to be the next Secretary of Education--and if it's going to be Linda Darling-Hammond.

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A Domestic Terrorist's Take On The Debates

Jeff Chang | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Michelle Rhee, William Ayers, John McCain, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Bill Ayers, Politics News
Jeff Chang

I wrote the Afterword for Bill Ayers' new book and I was honored that he asked. He has earned the respect of the best education leaders in the country, liberals and conservatives alike.

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