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Turnaround Artist
Michelle Rhee, the new and controversial Chancellor of DC public schools, is the cover story on the week's Time magazine. Its a great look into one persons plan to turnaround children's lives by provide quality education with a decidedly no-nonsense approach.
My favorite (and most disturbing) quote ". If two average 8-year-olds are assigned to different teachers, one who is strong and one who is weak, the children's lives can diverge in just a few years, according to research pioneered by Eric Hanushek at Stanford. The child with the effective teacher, the kind who ranks among the top 15% of all teachers, will be scoring well above grade level on standardized tests by the time she is 11. The other child will be a year and a half below grade level--and by then it will take a teacher who works with the child after school and on weekends to undo the compounded damage. In other words, the child will probably never catch up."
It a lengthy piece, by worth the read.
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