Michelle Rhee Leaves the Education Reform Trenches
Just about no one has a mixed view of former Washington, D.C. schools chancellor Michelle Rhee. Even聽the聽announcement that she’s stepping down from leadership at the education reform organization Students First prompted a firestorm of commentary.聽So I decided to add a few (quieter) thoughts about Rhee’s departure in :
if Rhee鈥檚 departure feels like a surrender, her critics have badly misunderstood the state of American education debates. There are many ways to interpret her fall, but it’s hard to see it as a body blow to the project of education reform. That鈥檚 sort of how a proxy works: Rhee鈥檚 departure doesn鈥檛 so much alter the country鈥檚 education dynamics as remove a lightning rod.