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With ‘reconstitution,' D.C. officials hope for school turnaround
Washington :: DC :: USA | 9 days ago
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The modernization effort will cost the nearly 100-year-old school about $100 million...Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson called it a fresh start and a momentum-shifter for Cardozo Senior High last month when administrators removed nearly half the
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StudentsFirst Stands with 11-Year-Old Marcel Neergaard Against 'Don't Say Gay' Bill Author
Los Angeles :: CA :: USA | 14 days ago
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The other day we told you about 11-year-old Tennessee student Marcel Neergaard and his MoveOn.org petition to have StudentsFirst rescind their award to Rep. John Ragan...In a statement on their blog, Michelle Rhee wrote: Protecting our children is
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The Buzz: Michelle Rhee takes hits as spouse Kevin Johnson wins kudos
Sacramento :: CA :: USA | 28 days ago
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He is winning credit for securing his city's basketball team. People are talking about retiring his jersey or building a statue. But for Johnson's wife and partner, school activist Michelle Rhee , May has proved more challenging. Nicholas Lemann ,
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Former D.C. schools chief still a lightning rod in education
Washington :: DC :: USA | 28 days ago
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May 22 The Kansas City Star Michelle Rhee is an education fireball that keeps burning. More News Three years after her brief but dramatic turn as the budget-slashing, union-rattling, performance-driving chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public
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Joe Nathan: StudentsFirst is Wrong About Minnesota
Washington :: DC :: USA | 28 days ago
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That's my reaction to a national report by StudentsFirst (SF) on improving education that gives Minnesota a D for our education laws and policies. StudentsFirst is a new organization founded by former Washington D.C. Superintendent of [...] by Joe
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DAILY REVIEW: How Michelle Rhee Misled Education Reform
Seattle :: WA :: USA | 29 days ago
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T he other day I picked up a copy of The Adventures of Augie March . I hadn't remembered that Saul Bellow, writing in the early 1950s, when he was not yet forty, about Chicago in the 1920s, had been in full sympathy with the urban poor, as he
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Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst Has a Strange Definition of "Reformer"
Nashville :: ME :: USA | 1 month ago
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Rhee's whole schtick is that she, as an educational reformer, can see simple solutions for fixing our schools that, thus far, everyone has either been too stupid to see themselves or too afraid of the teachers' unions to implement...But when this is
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Rhee Continues to Answer Questions on Test Cheating Memo
Atlanta :: GA :: USA | 1 month ago
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This has been a difficult week for Rhee, who has has to fend off accusations that she knew about the widespread cheating outlined in a memo she commissioned that was made public late last week by PBS journalist John Merrow . In an interview with The
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Education Advocate Michelle Rhee Fends Off Accusations
Columbia :: SC :: USA | 2 months ago
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In an internal memo , a district consultant warned that about 190 teachers at 70 schoolsmore than half the system's campusesmay have cheated in 2008 by erasing wrong answers on student testing sheets and filling in correct ones. The four-page
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Michelle Rhee's No Good, Very Bad Weekend
Washington :: DC :: USA | 2 months ago
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What spurred Merrow to give Rhee a [...] Those who like to take it easy late in the week and don't pay as much attention to news in the edusphere might have missed a journalistic bomb thrown by LearningMatters' John Merrow as he reassessed Michelle
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