Michelle Rhee's advice: Stop overpraising kids
StudentsFirst chief Michelle Rhee is a lightning-rod figure in educational reform, and I talked to her at length for my ''Patt Morrison Asks'' column. Her goal of a tough-love, top-to-bottom overhaul of public schools doesn't stop in the classroom or with teachers; even how we reward our children is in need of a makeover, she told me.
As an example, her own daughters, she says in aradio commentary, "suck" at soccer, yet they have so many medals and ribbons, "you'd think I was raising the next Mia Hamm."
And that is not, to her mind, a good thing:
The practice of applauding kids for taking
And that is not, to her mind, a good thing:
The practice of applauding kids for taking
