Why Teach For America Works - Michelle Rhee

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2009/07/05/Transforming_the_System_An_Interview_with_Michelle_...

Michelle Rhee, Chancellor of D.C. Public Schools, shares some prominent moments in Teach For America and how they have affected her reform ideals. She describes her personal experience discovering and participating in the program.

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Transforming the System: An Interview with Michelle Rhee with Eli Broad. - Aspen Institute

Michelle Rhee is chancellor of DC Public Schools, a district with 50,000 students and 144 schools. She is also the founder of The New Teacher Project, a nationally recognized leader in developing innovative solutions to the challenges of hiring new teachers.

As president and CEO of TNTP, Rhee partnered with school districts, state education agencies, nonprofit organizations, and unions to transform the way difficult-to-staff schools recruit, select, and train highly qualified teachers.

Her work resulted in widespread reform in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Miami, New York, Oakland, and Philadelphia. Rhee's commitment to excellence in education began in a Baltimore classroom as a Teach-for-America teacher. Rhee currently serves on the advisory boards for the National Council on Teacher Quality, the National Center for Alternative Certification, and Project REACH of the University of Phoenix's School of Education.

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[retsep81]

@MsJanetWood Why is this improvement statistically impossible? She has a small subset of students so from a simple mathematical standpoint that kind of improvement is entirely possible.

If you have proof she is a liar, why don't you provide the proof. If you don't then I think you're a either a union thug or a bad teacher that Michelle Rhee fired.

[1falconeye2]

@lvll138inrs If done right. Finland for example treats teachers like professionals, not slaves. Students are taught at home to respect authorities. Teachers in return respect the students. A friend of mine was called a "white cracker", and "dumb white bitch". When she called the parents, only a few responded. The administrator did little or nothing. So yeah, while some tenured teachers need to leave, because they are no good, a whole picture and setting needs to be looked at first!

[hotfingersandwich]

This woman is so full of shit. Do a little research on her, and you'll quickly see that she has a nasty little habit of saying things that can't be substantiated at all. "Oh, I did this, and I did this, and the kids improved, and the test scores went up, etc. etc. blah blah blah". Yet, when pressed, she can never lay hands on any documents and such to back any of her lies up. She'd make an excellent politician.

[michaelperez36]

NEVER MIND THAT BITCH TALKING BOUT GIVING 2 HOURS OF DAMN HOMEWORK FUCT THAT I MEAN I GET ABOUT 30 MIN MAX A DAY FOR ALL MY CLASES AND IM GETTING A'S AND B'S FUCK YOU MICHELLE RHEE FUCK YOU

[michaelperez36]

MMHH I WANNA FUCK HER

[raynica94]

@neelantra Okay. First of all, let's get one thing straight. It is completely inappropriate for you to be calling kids "shitty." Not only does that comment have no moral value, but it is completely irrelevant to the problem at hand. Children are not "shitty." If they are misbehaved and inattentive in class, it is because the parents have not done a right job with instilling them with the moral values they need to succeed in a classroom. Every child has the potential, ability and want to learn.

[minididi42]

so weird why would a new teacher be given the the students who had the most challenges academically and behaviorally? shouldn't it be the more experienced teachers?

[neelantra]

she's a korean version of rosie o'donnel, along with the bullshit vomit coming out of her disgusting mouth.

[neelantra]

The fact is that Discipline is a prequisite befor learning. Most of these shitty kids have NO interest in learning at all. If behaviour is good, and the student values education, teaching and learning is a breeze.

[viall4diabetes]

Rhee knows about one-tenth of what she thinks she does. See: ateacheronteaching.blogspot.co­m: Lady with a Broom: Michelle Rhee