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Some Legacy. Some Editorial.
The Washington Post has essentially reprinted a press release from Kaya Henderson and published it as an editorial. A reader asked me how I respond to it. First, I would point people to the responses...
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Where are these “Dozens and Dozens’ of DC public schools with continued,...
Michelle Rhee said on the recent Frontline PBS special that there were ‘dozens and dozens’ of DC public schools that supposedly made steady progress on the DC-CAS over the past four or five years. Jay...
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Even Conservatives Think There Is a Lot of Cheating Going On in DCPS
An article in American Thinker, a conservative rag, shows up Rhee, Henderson et al as corrupt liars, cheaters, and folks who stonewall and cover up the truth....
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Enrollment in DCPS – Have Rhee & Henderson Saved It?
Michelle Rhee, her acolyte Kaya Henderson, and all their supporters keep saying that their corporate-style educational deforms in Washington DC have done wonderful things, such as increasing the...
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Two Powerful Posts From Current Teachers
First, we have “Florence”, a DCPS teacher, on the utter BS from Kamras and Henderson on recruiting new teachers while trashing the current ones:...
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Why Does Anybody Listen to Anything Said by Michelle Rhee & Her Kind?
An aside: It really is insane to keep building “public” charter schools when we have vacant really public schools that are part vacant. Wasn’t the idea of public charter schools was to carefully try...
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Utter, Stunning Failure by Rhee, Kamras, Henderson et al:
“Mr. Teachbad” did such a great job analyzing the utter failure of these contemptible liars that I hope he won’t mind that I re-post it in full: ==================== 16 MAR 2013 by teachbad Well,...
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Indictments in Atlanta Cheating Scandal Make Me Wonder: When Will Michelle...
Those who trust our DCPS leaders to do the right thing regarding building a school here in Turkey Thicket should consider this: . Beverly Hall, the ex-superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools, was just...
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The ‘Smoking Memo’ on Michelle Rhee’s EraserGate was leaked to John Merrow
The “smoking memo” has turned up. The one that Michelle Rhee, Kaya Henderson, and Charles Willoughby didn’t want the public to see. The one where the testing company expert told them all about the...
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John Merrow on the Rhee-Henderson-Caveon Whitewash
John Merrow has a hard-hitting article on the multiple lies uttered by Michelle Rhee and her best friend, Kaya Henderson, and the whitewash they hired Caveon to perform. Here is a quote: ………………. At the...
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Has Educational Rhee-form succeeded or failed in Washington DC Public Schools?
Bottom line conclusion from my last bunch of posts (see #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6) Mayoral control of schools in DC, aka Educational Deform à la Rhee, has been an expensive failure, and it was foisted on...
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Trends for DC & Charters & Nation in 8th grade NAEP reading scores, black...
Here we have yet another surprising graph showing how the scores for black 8th graders on the NAEP reading tests have been bouncing around for students in DC public schools, DC charter schools, DC as a...
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Even More Missed Targets: DC-CAS Proficiency in 2010 and 2011
Part Ten of Many Installment #10 in our lengthy saga of failures by the current and past Chancellors of the District of Columbia School system. Today we look at overall proficiency rates in elementary...
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The Long List of Failures by Rhee and Henderson, Continued
Part Twelve of Many I continue to slog through the 78 targets that Michelle Rhee (and her henchperson Kaya Henderson) said they would have miraculously reached with DC Public Schools by the end of...
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Did Michelle Rhee Actually Close Those Achievement Gaps?
Part Thirteen Of Many Here we look to see if Michelle Rhee lived up to her promises that she would close some of the ‘achievement gaps’ between privileged and underprivileged students in Washington, DC...
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Twelve More Testing Goals Assessed Today — How Many Did Rhee Succeed At?
Part Fourteen of Many Once again, we are today comparing promised goals with actual results. This time, it involves the black-white, hispanic-white, and poor-nonpoor achievement gaps on the 2012...
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Final Listing of Completed and Failed Goals, But Some Analysis Will Follow
Part Fifteen of Many Here we come to the last four of the 78 promises that Michelle Rhee made to get $64.5 million. Did she and her successors reach any of these four last goals? No. As usual. Even...
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PARCC Results Released in DC
I just got back from watching the public release of the results of the PARCC test that students in Washington DC took about 7 months ago. (Let that sink in: it took the testing company, and their...
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Even the Chancellor Calls the Results ‘Sobering’
The Washington City Paper has an article on the PARCC results with way more graphs and charts than I do, and they quote even Chancellor Kaya Henderson as saying the results were ‘sobering’. Please...
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Where DC’s schools rank by family income, test scores, and ethnicity – NYTimes
The New York Times recently ran the results of some pretty fancy number-crunching for all sufficiently-large public school districts in the United States. They graphed family income against ‘years...
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