DC Parents and Teachers: Today Is the Last Day (of Rhee) for the Rest of Your Life
The poster girl for militant corporatism in education is clocking out for the last time this afternoon at DC Schools. It signifies the playing out of the most healthy repudiation of bare-knuckled, anti-public management by those whose confidence and cluelessness are equally matched and whose patronizing and condescending attitudes toward parents and teachers have finally been justly rewarded by the public.
A clip from Bill Turque, whose negative assessment of the Rhee Reign comes near the end of his piece in WaPo:
A clip from Bill Turque, whose negative assessment of the Rhee Reign comes near the end of his piece in WaPo:
. . . . But there is a fragility to the changes Rhee has wrought. Elementary reading and math scores dipped in 2010 after two years of gains. Testing data also show that efforts to narrow the achievement gap separating white and African American students stalled this year. Many schools remain deeply troubled; 12 percent of sophomores at Spingarn High School in Northeast