Michelle Rhee

They start of by using people in the documentary to speak such as using Michelle Rhee. She talked about how she thought as a teacher for 3 years but never ran a school district.That explains that she had some experience with schools but not with a district. They also used Bill strickland explaining how they waste more on prisoners…

trying to lift the children of this country up” he isn’t right because individuals are getting punished and children are being brought down . If supporters of the standardized tests weren’t trying to punish others there wouldn’t be people like Michelle Rhee who “fired 600 teachers and dozens of principals the closed 23 schools” due to of low test scores. The results are claimed to help individuals not to make the feel like failures because policy makers believe they’re not educated. Also if…

Analytical Essay – School Choice The debate on school choice is incredibly difficult considering the personal struggles and economic-political ramifications. In Davis Guggenheim’s movie Waiting for Superman, he presents an exquisite expose on the effects access to education for individual families has. In Elizabeth Dutro’s critique however, she offers some strong evidence to suggest that Guggenheim’s portrayal is skewed. In addition, the US Department of Education issued a report in 2008 which…

Davis Guggenheim (2010), the book, edited by Karl Weber, (2010) is comprised of essays from people who are at the leading edge of educational reformation which are; Davis Guggenheim, Lesley Chilcott, Bill Strickland, Eric Hanushek, Eric Schwarz, Michelle Rhee, Randi Weingarten, Jay Mathews, Geoffrey Canada, and Bill and Melinda Gates. Each essay brings to light their own success story and possible solutions to the problems facing the American education system that has less than half of the…

dispute is whether or not teachers should receive tenure, which is a policy that makes it more difficult to fire teachers. The arguments range from abolishing the practice all together to keeping tenure as part of the states’ systems. According to Michelle Rhee (2014), the ruling Vergara v. California is a “win” for all teachers, and the educational system as a whole, because it abolished teacher tenure and job security for educators (p. 1). Another person who would agree with this stance is…

Students getting paid to go to school sounds like an amazing incentive for the students and majority of parents, but for some teachers, it’s an outrageous idea. Students shouldn’t get paid for something they are expected to do, especially if it will help them in the future to actually work for what they will earn. Imagine being a parent of a 15-year-old child who comes home with one hundred dollars just from making straight A’s on his/her report card. With that money he/she could start saving…

about and show respect and inclusion. Establish ground rules. Kids should feel free to discuss issues without fear. Classroom meetings are not a time to discuss individual conflicts or gossip about others. Reinforce existing classroom rules. Michelle Rhee said “More than 160,000 kids stay home from school each day to avoid being bullied. That's no way to receive a great education. Let's end bullying.” The National Education Association listed it in a press release about last year's National…

Walt Disney once said, “Our greatest natural resource is the minds of our children.” If that is so, why are schools standardizing different aspects of the education. Over the years, many school districts have opted into Common Core, standardized tests, and many other issues. While there are some positives to schools starting to standardize education, there are still many more negatives to it. Standardized testing has been in the United States’ education curriculum since the mid- 1800s (procon…