Long Island principal Carol Burris recently examined the effects of Michelle Rhee’s IMPACT program in DC.
It was started in 2009. By now they have enough data to identify all the great teachers, right?
They know enough to demonstrate whether three great teachers in a row closes the achievement gap, right?
But test scores in D.C. have been nearly flat since IMPACT was adopted.
The achievement gap in D.C.–for both blacks and whites, Hispanics and whites–remains the largest of any urban district tested by the National Assessment of Educational Progress.
So what happens to Rhee’s favorite tale about three great teachers in a row?
Apparently IMPACT has neither identified them nor found enough to make a difference.
Instead, the teacher attrition rate has increased.
By now, only “great” teachers should be left standing.
But obviously it doesn’t work that way.
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Rhee will just announce that her program was never implemented “correctly”, just like whole language, teach the concept, etc.
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Rhee likes to realm others. What motivates her anyway? Hate? Money? Self-serving? Nuts?
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But none of that matters, because we(they) “KNOW” that this works… who cares what the data show?
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“Instead, the teacher attrition rate has increased.”
Winning!
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More Orwellian Doublespeak from them. Just like her group is really “Students Last.” How do you make that big of a mess with $29,145/student? Why, you have to work real hard to ruin that kind of revenue. Then they pay the charter schools $13,000/student less for $16,145 for 20,800 students = $270,400,000 that went somewhere else. And who knows where but still somewhere. Then there is the test cheating. When is the investigation going to happen. Oh, I forgot it is D.C. and Congress has input into the D.C. Schools not like anywhere else. We would have rotten egg on our face so it never happened did it.
This is the way it really is in “Silly Town.” Doublespeak for “Destructo Town.”
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IMPACT has no impact and RHEE has no reform.
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A suggestion….”I want to apologize to the American public for promoting Michelle Rhee and her so called ‘reform’ agenda. I did so with good intentions, but in retrospect I should not have been so quick to champion the efforts of a novice ‘reformer’ who has turned out to be a power hungry master of self-promotion and not a dedicated educator. As a person with considerable power, I have an added responsibility to carefully select those who I choose to give a platform. I regret the extent to which my lack of judgment has led to the harming of public school students”…Just in case Oprah the enabler wants to apologize. There are others, of course.
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PBS’s John Merrow has essentially made such an apology. Yeats ago, he did a multi-part puff piece covering Rhee’s term in office… but then recently voiced his realization that Rhee a destructive, selif-interested phony
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And Students’ First is also having problems reaching passing grades, I mean goals. The money is just not coming in. Meanwhile more rats are jumping her sinking ship. Oprah better write a big check soon or she’ll be running on empty.
http://www.politico.com/story/2013/07/president-of-michelle-rhees-group-leaves-94103.html
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