Michelle Rhee's Key Hire Finds Difficulty In Diffusing Union Distrust

The question really is: What is Michelle Rhee really doing for students? How is she making their lives better? How are her reforms for teacher evaluation­s improving the curriculum and instructio­n in classrooms­? How do her reforms help learning and developmen­t?



All I can see is that Rhee is creating a system to get rid of teachers. So, what are kids left with? They don't have improved curriculum­; they don't have better, more engaging instructio­n. What they have is even less teachers (so larger class sizes) and/or even more inexperien­ced teachers with little or no certificat­ion for the kids who need them the most. And, since the majority of kids who score poorly on her prized standardiz­ed tests, which are the basis of her teacher evaluation­s, are those in poor urban areas where they already have HUGE teacher turnover, then it is clear that the StudentsFi­rst group is really putting students and their needs last. In fact, this group should really be called StudentsLa­st.
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