Thursday, April 26, 2012

RheeFirst! » The Best Posts About Michelle Rhee’s Exaggerated Test Scores

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The Best Posts About Michelle Rhee’s Exaggerated Test Scores

Dated, but oh so good.
Written by Larry Ferlazzo for his blog. Read the entire post here.
The education blogosphere, and parts of the education media, have been abuzz the past couple of days over the discovery that Michelle Rhee’s often-claimed astronomical student test gains when she was a teacher were not true. This, of course, does not mean that Rhee was not a good teacher — for all I know, she was an excellent one (though I have to admit her admission that she taped the mouths shut of her students one day does give one pause).
It can mean, however, a number of other things. And here are my choices for The Best Posts About Michelle Rhee’s Exaggerated Test Scores, which provide some insightful commentary.”