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Wednesday, February 9, 2011

Schools Matter: Michelle Rhee's Miracle Teaching Turns Out to Another Enron Education Story

Schools Matter: Michelle Rhee's Miracle Teaching Turns Out to Another Enron Education Story

Michelle Rhee's Miracle Teaching Turns Out to Another Enron Education Story

It is customary in this era of education reform fashioned on the Enron model to find impressive miracles quickly turning to disappointing mirages upon closer examination. From Houston to New York City to Boston and Chicago, from L.A. to Atlanta, we find that test scores that sound too good to be true, are.

As Michelle Rhee's resume indicates, she has been claiming miracles from her TFA stint in Baltimore for a long time. She actually used her tales of miracle test score gains at the Edison/EAI school where she worked to leverage a position in New York prior to coming to DC. What's amazing is that no one ever