Fire Teachers, Reappoint Rhee!: Legend of the Fall, pt. III
EducationDec 17, 2010After announcing that U.S. education is a complete failure, unlike the Golden Era of the 1950s, on The Colbert Report , former DC chancellor Michelle Rhee has brought her celebrity crisis tour to CNN where she charged, once again, that public education is a failure based on recent PISA scores, ranked internationally.
Since I recently clarified Rhee’s historical incompetence (or bold dishonesty) concerning education in 1950s America, before desegregation and civil rights legislation that changed this country, let’s turn to the claims she made on CNN.
Is U.S. education in crisis? If it is, then we either need to changed the definition of the word or admit that a crisis can last more than a century because every single claim made by Rhee has been tossed at education since the mid-1800s.
About a year ago, a jet crash-landed in the Hudson River. That’s a crisis. The pilot, crew, passengers, and rescue personnel had to take quick and
