Activists Targeting U.S. Schools, Backed By Big Bucks
By Stephanie Simon May 15 (Reuters) - During her tumultuous three years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rh...
By Stephanie Simon May 15 (Reuters) - During her tumultuous three years at the head of the Washington D.C. public schools, Michelle Rh...
Gail Robinson | Posted 04.13.2012
Increasingly privatized education -- with charters, consultants and competition -- offers more opportunities for investment and profit-making. Its proponents have a special and vested interest in the policies they promote.
Posted 04.03.2012
Anyone teaching in a college could be automatically eligible to teach in high schools, according to a bill passed by the Tennessee state Senate Monday...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 03.06.2012
It's Super Tuesday, and Ohio kindergarten teacher Nicole Kessler is frustrated. Budget cuts turned her life upside down this year: To save money on bu...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 12.07.2011
The report card on America's urban schools is in, and the grades aren't good. On Wednesday the U.S. Department of Education released the results of...
Patricia Lesko | Posted 02.05.2012
Michigan Senate Republicans want to tighten the rules so that a legislator's votes cannot be grounds for recall, as was the case with recalled legislator Paul Scott.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 11.23.2011
Meet the new education lobby. It's ambitious, expansive and, in some cases, modeling itself after sprawling single-issue lobbying organizations lik...
Posted 12.12.2011
Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett unveiled a four-part education reform proposal Tuesday morning that has since received mixed reactions. At a news con...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 11.07.2011
WASHINGTON -- Attempts to bridge the divide between self-styled education reform groups and teachers unions, backed by progressive organizations, hit ...
Posted 10.31.2011
Michigan Democratic state Rep. Tim Melton is leaving office and moving to California to join Michelle Rhee's education reform group StudentsFirst. ...
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 10.29.2011
In the eyes of Steven Brill, the American Federation of Teachers building a website attacking Michelle Rhee and masking its origins is worse than Rhee...
HuffingtonPost.com | Lizzie Schiffman | Posted 10.11.2011
Update: On Thursday, Willow Creek Rev. Bill Hybels told audience members at the Global Leadership Summit that Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz did not sp...
Posted 08.07.2011
Controversial education reformer Michelle Rhee sat down with AOL to discuss the state of America's public schools and how her organization StudentsFir...
Michelle Rhee | Posted 07.18.2011
I recently shared my views on unions with the former head of the Washington Teachers Union, and he said he thought the unions had to become more reform-minded. "Huh," I thought. "That doesn't sound like the standard union line."
Sue Peters | Posted 06.14.2011
Between Black, Rhee, Sheffield and Goodloe-Johnson, it has not been a good month for the corporate education reform crowd.
Michelle Rhee | Posted 05.29.2011
The problem is not collective bargaining. The problems arise when unions use collective bargaining to push for policies that devalue great teachers.
Sam Chaltain | Posted 05.25.2011
after reading Michelle Rhee's two newest efforts to launch her own form of "Inception" -- her organization's inaugural policy agenda -- I see her fundamental misunderstanding about the power of ideas.
Posted 05.25.2011
Former Washington, D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee appeared on CNN's Parker Spitzer Dec. 15 to share her views on the state of the American educ...
Jose Vilson | Posted 05.25.2011
How she's been promoted as a students first education reform is definitely a work of prestidigitation and legerdemain. She'll defy examination and deceive you again.
Antonio Villaraigosa | Posted 05.25.2011
The Parent Trigger is an amazing tool for change because it empowers parents to make decisions on behalf of the single most important stakeholders in education reform: the students.
Newsweek | Posted 05.25.2011
After my boss, Washington, D.C., mayor Adrian Fenty, lost his primary in September, I was stunned. I had never imagined he wouldn't win the contest, g...
Reuters | Posted 05.16.2012