Michelle Rhee

write about what I have learned from listening to that discussion. The title of the debate was “A Closer Look at the Debate Over Charter School”. The moderator “Jeremy Hobson” discussed the topic with two experts in the subject. The first is Michelle Rhee who managed Washington’s public…

Although standardized tests, I believe are essential because they assist educators and parents with identifying the child’s strengths and weaknesses. However, at the same time, these test results are relatively provided to teachers for the up and coming year, and are not available for the current academic year for both parents and educators to provide the necessary support needed to move students forward academically, thus causing students, parents, and educators to fail substantially.…

There has been considerable debate on the use of standardized test scores in American undergraduate admission. In the recent decade, the SAT and the ACT have become an increasingly important factor in evaluating the burgeoning number of college applicants, largely because of their comprehensiveness and standardization in the education industry. According to The New York Times, an overwhelming amount of 1,666,017 students took the ACT and 1,664,479 took the SAT in 2012. These dedicated students…

future in their hands. They teach the next generation, and are the most valuable tool we have as a society instill knowledge into our students. Teacher tenure was implemented to protect our teachers from being laid off due to unfair reasons. Michelle Rhee argues that teachers abuse the fact that they have tenure, and fail to teach their students. On the contrary, however, if teachers do not have to worry about their job security, then they can put more, honest focus into teaching the next…

that teachers in teacher’s union get tenure with a Simpsons’ clip: Lisa Simpson’s teacher counts down to when she gets tenure, and after she received tenure, says that she won’t teach and asks Ralph to teach the class instead. Part of the problem, Rhee says, is that the union doesn’t recognize good teachers. Every teacher is paid the same based on years of service. Canada says that there can be no reform without going through the teachers union. Lastly, Guggenheim says that while 1 in 57 doctors…

options. In this movie the teaching process is being questioned for bureaucracy that’s spread out to high authorities, levels beginning from district and ending up with federal standards. One of the real examples that the book illustrates is the Michelle Rhee case. She was the former chancellor of the Washington, D.C. public schools. This district was known as the worse-performing students at the time that she was a counselor. The example in the documentary explains how teachers are attached…

Michelle Rhee, Washington, D.C. school chancellor argues that these programs “level the playing field for low-income kids… may be an effective tool for getting their attention in school.” The Chicago mayor also agrees with this claim. This means low-income students…

For the most part, the cause of ADHD is still unknown. While scientists believe there is a genetic factor, environmental issues may also play a role. International research on twins with ADHD indicates that it occurs in family members often. Identical twins are at an extremely high rate of having ADHD is their twin also has it. Fraternal twins have an almost 40% likelihood of having the disorder if their womb partner also does. Siblings of adolescents with ADHD are also more likely to have ADHD,…

One of Betsy Devos’ speeches in August 2015 at the SXSWedu convention in Texas emphasizes her education vision on the issue of unequal education access in America. Her speech uses the propaganda technique of emotional appeal to convey messages about this social issue. In the speech, Betsy Devos uses a lot of emotional appealing phrases, such as calling traditional public education system a “dead end,” and labeling public schools as “low performing” schools (Strauss). She is denigrating the…

well as the government with a sense of where each student may be with the curriculum. According to former Washington, D.C , schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, “ standardized testing typically accompanied by a set of established standards or instructional framework, which provides teachers with guidance for what and when something needs to be taught” (Rhee, 2013). In other words, by the government putting into place a set of established standards , it provides instructors with the necessary guide…