How To Explain the Michelle Rhee Syndrome: The Big Picture
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Last week, I got a request from a producer of a radio interview show in which a Hollywood celebrity talks to leaders, in this case, Michelle Rhee. He didn’t want to know my opinion of her brief tenure in Washington, D.C. He wanted to see where she fit into the big picture of school reform in the U.S. Here is what I told the producer.
1. Historically, when the nation has a cold, schools sneeze. Examples are legion.
- When the Soviet Union launched the satellite Sputnik in 1957, President Eisenhower signed the National