On Michelle Rhee: Two studies, a dissection of them -- and varying conclusions
By Beth Hawkins | Published Thu, Apr 14 2011 9:04 am
Michelle Rhee
How many posts about the former schools chief of a city that’s 1,100 miles from here can one blog suffer? I don’t know, but we’re going to find out.
It seems I was a few days premature inwriting about the controversies that continue to dog erstwhile D.C. chancellor and bee-eater Michelle Rhee. Her reforms are the subject of two separate, critical national studies, themselves the subject of a new 3,200-word dissection in a high-profile education policy journal.
The first study, undertaken by Alan Ginsburg, a former director of Policy and Program Studies in the U. S. Department of Education, found that contrary to claims by Rhee supporters, D.C. students performed worse
