Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Education - Everything you need to know about the world of education.

Education- Everything you need to know about the world of education.

Rhee grilled on Hardy M.S. decisions

D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee (Photo by Benjamin J. Myers).













VALERIE STRAUSS
A School Survival Guide for Parents (And Everyone Else)
Posted at 6:30 AM ET, 03/23/2010

Ravitch's NCLB book an unexpected best seller

Education policy books aren't usually best sellers, but Diane Ravitch's new "The Death and Life of the Great American School System," has become so popular that many bookstores are sold out.

JAY MATHEWS
What's Right and Wrong With Our Schools
Posted at 5:30 AM ET, 03/23/2010

Could schools cure our uncivil discourse?

"What has happened to the teaching of critical skills, decision-making based on weighing alternative policies or courses of action, and respect for those who hold differing opinions on local and national issues?"

Katherine Bradley funding Dunn deal

The private funds that DCPS officials said would be used to hire former Obama White House communications director Anita Dunn will come from philanthropist Katherine Bradley, Chancellor Michelle A. Rhee told the D.C. Council Monday. Bradley is donating $100,000 through the D.C. Public Education Fund, the non-profit set up by Mayor Adrian M. Fenty to handle private contributions to school reform.
The Post reported Friday that Rhee had reached out to Dunn, one of the Washington's most accomplished Democratic media consultants, to help tell the school reform story more effectively. Rhee said that she and Dunn first spoke about a year ago, and that after she left her White House post in November, she and her firm, Squier Knapp Dunn, began advising DCPS on a pro bono basis.
"We've had a lot of challenges as it relates to our communications," Rhee said, adding that positive developments in the school system don't receive the attention they deserve. "We can't always rely on the media 
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