The bankrupt 'school reform manifesto' of Rhee, Klein, etc.
There are so many things wrong with the new “school reform manifesto” signed by 16 school district chiefs -- including New York’s Joel Klein and Washington’s Michelle Rhee -- and published in The Washington Post that it is hard to know where to start. There’s the intellectual dishonesty and scapegoating: It starts by saying that everybody is responsible for improving schools but then proceeds to bash teachers, and doesn’t say a single thing about the responsibility of superintendents. After eight years as the czar of New York City’s public schools, Klein might want to stop blaming other people for his failures.
