CONFIRMED: Rhee funded by Rupert Murdoch In his new book, Class Warfare, Steven Brill confirms that Michelle Rhee is being funded by Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch, CEO of News Corp., is currently embroiled in a growing cell phone hacking scandal. Rhee’s mentor, Joel Klein, serves as Murdoch’s ...
''Value-added'' measurements show that Rhee-style 'reform' doesn't work Written by Guy Brandenburg for GFBrandeburg blog. Read the entire post here . “*When you follow a cohort of students through the grades for the past four years, it becomes very, very obvious that whatever Michelle Rhee and Kaya Henderson and Jason ...
Rhee's new edu-scam partner: hedge fund billionaire David Tepper Written by Daniel Wright for the DailyKos. Read the entire article here. *“Derrell “Dangerous Minds” Bradford is at it again. Not content with being on Christie’s privatization panel and taking Wall Street money for Excellence in Education (E3), ...
Huge achievement gaps persist in D.C. schools Written by Bill Turque for the Washington Post. Read the entire article here. *“The gulf in academic achievement separating public schools in the District’s poorest neighborhoods from those in its most affluent has narrowed slightly in some ...
Rhee and hedge fund billionaires form partnership to attack public education Written by Jane Roh for the Courier-Post. Read the entire article here. *“Daniel Wright, the former communications director for Assemblyman Lou Greenwald and Assemblywoman Pamela Lampitt, is now one of the more vociferous online critics of the reform ...
D.C. teacher tells chancellor why IMPACT evaluation is unfair Written by Alyson Perschke, with an introduction by Valerie Strauss, for Stauss’s Answer Sheet blog. Read the entire article here. *Here is a letter that Alyson Perschke, a fourth-grade teacher in D.C. Public Schools, wrote to Schools Chancellor Kaya ...
