WOW. Michelle Rhee was recently on CurrentTV (Seriously? Isn’t Current supposed to be a progressive news outlet?) talking about corporate education policy. The whole segment is pretty infuriating, particularly when she tries to act as though a relentless focus on high-stakes testing isn’t at the core of her brand of “reform”. (Apparently, she’d like us to believe that all those DCPS firings, and that cheating scandal, just appeared out of nowhere.)
Even more offensive, however, was her lamentation of the fact that “education reform is being polarized to extremes,” AS THOUGH SHE ISN’T ONE OF THE PRIMARY ONES FUELING THAT