Education
TIME cover story focuses on the problems of teacher tenure
The latest TIME magazine cover story documents the growing movement to do away with tenure for public school teachers. On a warm day in early June, a Los Angeles County…
Michelle Rhee
American educational reformer
Budget, Taxation & Economy
More evidence that performance pay works
In “Incentives, Selection, and Teacher Performance: Evidence from IMPACT,” Thomas Dee of Stanford University and James Wyckoff of UVA evaluated Washington, D.C.’s IMPACT program. IMPACT was one of Michelle Rhee’s…
Education
Sowell asks a key question about education’s purpose
Thomas Sowell devotes his latest column to a question that ought to have an obvious answer: Are schools places to provide jobs for teachers or education for students? We pay…
Education
Group gives NC a D for education laws, policies
Today, Michelle Rhee’s organization, StudentsFirst, released a state policy report card, which evaluates the education laws and policies in place in each state. North Carolina received a D overall and…
Education
Wake school board fires Tata
In a party-line vote, today the Wake County school board fired Superintendent Tony Tata after 20 months on the job. He’ll receive a separation package of slightly more than $250,000.…
Liberty
N&O edit board: Experience, ‘nonpartisanship’ needed at Wake Schools, but not at UNC?
The News & Observer‘s editorial board apparently has decided that classroom experience (or at least significant seat time as an educator) is essential for the next superintendent of Wake County…
Liberty
Controversial D.C. school reformer takes her cause national
As Newsweek?s latest cover story details, former Washington, D.C., public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee plans to champion school reform efforts from a national perspective. You might be surprised to learn…
Liberty
Remove the punchbowl sooner
Andrew Large, former deputy governor of the Bank of England, has a letter in today’s Financial Times on the wisdom of British austerity. He writes, First, the reductions in gross…
Liberty
Re: Teacher goes postal
The email from the president of the Wake teachers union association reminded me of Michelle Rhee’s comments to Newsweek last year while fighting with the teachers’ union in the D.C.…
Liberty
What Do JLF’s Terry Stoops & DC Schools Chief Michelle Rhee Have in Common?
First, JLF’s education policy analyst Terry Stoops and DC schools chief Michelle Rhee evalute education policy based on its impact on student achievement, not whether it serves the bureaucracy. Second,…
Liberty
I wonder whether she’ll win praise as a ‘maverick’
The woman leading efforts to improve D.C. schools gets a three-page profile in the latest Newsweek. Michelle Rhee’s unwillingness to accept conventional wisdom about public education leads to passages such…