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Duncan, Rhee starring at our-hearts-belong-to-data summit - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post

Duncan, Rhee starring at our-hearts-belong-to-data summit - The Answer Sheet - The Washington Post:

Duncan, Rhee starring at our-hearts-belong-to-data summit

The king and queen of data-driven education reform — Education Secretary Arne Duncan and former D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee — are starring at the National Data Summit that starts on Wednesday in the nation’s capital.

Amassing and using data to assess schools and principals and students and teachers and school districts and states is, of course, at the heart of the education accountability movement championed by Duncan and Rhee.

For the past decade, with No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top