Michelle Rhee Versus Michelle Rhee
Michelle Rhee believes that all children can achieve at a high level, given the proper teaching and support. Her thinking on this is admirable, but less so when it’s paired with passages like this, from a new New York magazine piece:
Rhee now describes teaching ability as something akin to an inborn talent, joking that no matter how much she practiced basketball, she could never play in the NBA like her fiancé Kevin Johnson, the former All-Star and current mayor of Sacramento. She created the New Teacher Project to identify other naturals.
Rhee would never accept the notion that some students are “natural” learners blessed with raw ability and others are not. So why would she insist that teaching