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[quote=Anonymous]I am probably among the last people to defend Michelle Rhee, but DC was hardly Atlanta. It's hard to prove a grand erasure conspiracy any larger than the ones before NCLB when Blue Ribbons were easier to get than AYP safe harbor. (Oyster is a case in point. Scores were tampered under pre-Rhee principal. Nobody will admit that on record of course.)

Rhee was famous for listening to and respecting the views of students over adults. She also brought in some amazingly hard working and dedicated central office staff. More than a few of her principals were "older" black women even though she supposedly fired older black women teachers. She was also the first to admit that overall some test increases were from Janey's changes and kids learning how to take the tests.

But why the hype of a few? That's like asking why the broom on the magazine cover. (As my tween would say, duh.)

Regardless of what she did or did not do, Rhee's fundamental view that a turnaround of a system like DC could happen in less than 8 years was naïve at best. At times it seemed as if MoCo, FFX, Loudon, Anne Arundel etc. public schools didn't exist. Or only existed as sources of unprepared principals.

Henderson has shown that cooler heads can prevail. Or at least not reinvent the wheel. Thankfully she hasn't made any grand pronouncements of early retirement or going to Davos or TED.

I haven't seen Frontline episode, but I hope it puts some of the Rhee mania to bed so we can move on.[/quote]

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