Elaine Weiss of the Broader Bolder Approach appraises the dichotomous views of Michelle Rhee and me.
Which is fact and which is fiction?
Come to the Economic Policy Institute in D.C. this Friday at noon to hear these issues discussed. I will be there with Elaine Weiss and Randi Weingarten.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Was Rhee invited to have a seat in the audience? Up close, of course, somewhere in the front 3-4 rows. Wouldn’t want to be disrespectful or anything.
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Dan, great sarcasm, we need that for fun so as not to blow up with the insanity of it all. I call Rhee’s group “Students Last” for a long time now as we believe in “Truth in Advertising.” You can hear her for almost two hours on George1la a year ago in L.A. before she started to be really shamed and had to hide her coming to L.A. After the time we videoed and after the event, outside we gave a dose of reality about her and her organization to her young bright eyed “True Believers” just as I remember cult members in the past. I saw some of my friends get involved in total control cults and took them on. The cults lost. Three of the four leaders are now dead and not one got to be what they wanted. They are now ghosts of what they wanted to be. Billionaires, corporations they all are the same as cults in how they operate. That makes it simple to operate on and in to mess them up. Same rules, same game, simple for me. Just time consuming. We need to take them all down and get proper people running things who have only two things in mind: First-students are #1 only, Two-we will watch every penny so it goes to educational purposes and not to PORK anyone for any reason. We will get the best deal with the money we have for our students and those who teach them with no excuses. Otherwise, let’s prosecute them and/or throw them out the door.
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I heard Diane Ravitch speak at Stanford and heard Rhee on TV. Rhee is mean spirited and her approach to education is detrimental. Diane Ravitch on the other hand, is compassionate, knowledgeable and her book is outstanding.
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Always good to look at http://www.rheefirst.com/ as well as the brilliant http://laststand4children.blogspot.com/, which currently features a great negative review of REIGN OF ERROR by someone who admits quickly that he’s not read the book. 🙂
And there is a Children Last blog: http://studentslast.blogspot.com/
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