Comments on: From the convention: Michelle Rhee on how Obama — or Romney — should change education http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-michelle-rhee-on-how-obama-or-romney-should-change-education_5542/ By The Hechinger Report Mon, 13 May 2013 20:45:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Larry King http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-michelle-rhee-on-how-obama-or-romney-should-change-education_5542/comment-page-1/#comment-1058 Larry King Mon, 10 Sep 2012 14:34:11 +0000 http://hechingered.org/?p=5542#comment-1058 Michelle Rhee is a double down on standardized testing advocate, no friend of teachers, with views so toxic she can’t hold a job.

Rhee is part of the blame the teachers, looking for Superman, problem.

Her opinions on school reform are absolutely not to be trusted.

]]> By: Don Ernst http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-michelle-rhee-on-how-obama-or-romney-should-change-education_5542/comment-page-1/#comment-1038 Don Ernst Fri, 07 Sep 2012 20:27:31 +0000 http://hechingered.org/?p=5542#comment-1038 Michelle Rhee starts with some assumptions that suggest to me she would feel more comfortable with Romney. First, the idea that local control is bad must be based on her own anti-democratic practices and experiences in D.C. Such practices led to teacher alienation, parent dissatisfaction, the defeat of a sitting mayor and the assumption that democracy and inclusion are problems. She seems committed and indeed comfortable with bypassing local voices and would prefer to centralize the promulgation of education policy. Further, she supports the current narrative of education in our democracy and therefore simply reinforces old practices that reject new hopes for redefining what we mean by success, acheivement, and intelligence. She seems to disregard the need to create positive conditions and circumstances for learning by drinking the cool-aid of– if we can just create the right kind of bottled up knowledge—read standards—then apply the sadly separatist, unjust, and incomplete judgment making technology of standardized testing”—well we can then achieve educational excellence. Such a view bypasses what we now know about human learning, about student engagement, the power of focusing on student interests and their learning passions not to mention the importance of teacher expertise and professionalism. Why does she get to decide and on what basis? I knew Fred Hechinger, and my sense is that Fred would have wanted to add the voices of Diane Ravitch, John Goodlad, Ted Sizer, Nell Noddings, Linda Darling-Hammond, Barnett Berry, David Orr, Mike Rose and other progressive education voices to the incomplete and arrogant-feeling of Rhee’s ideas.

]]> By: Voices of the Dropout Nation in Quotes: What Are You Doing to Help Kids Succeed? | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle http://hechingered.org/content/from-the-convention-michelle-rhee-on-how-obama-or-romney-should-change-education_5542/comment-page-1/#comment-1012 Voices of the Dropout Nation in Quotes: What Are You Doing to Help Kids Succeed? | Dropout Nation: Coverage of the Reform of American Public Education Edited by RiShawn Biddle Thu, 06 Sep 2012 10:56:27 +0000 http://hechingered.org/?p=5542#comment-1012 [...] Rhee, explaining why the myth of local control that has helped foster the nation’s education crisis, needs to [...]

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