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D.C. Public School Chancellor Michelle Rhee is the archetype of the modern education reform movement. She followed the pipeline from teaching for two years in Baltimore in the Teach for America program to the land of think tanks and advocacy organizations to becoming a useful tool for the corporate lobby. Just one big happy family really… In her time as chancellor, Rhee has introduced policies designed to increase charters, institute “rigorous” assessment regimes, introduce scripted curricula and create a low wage work-force to read from scripts and turnover every 3-5 years. As I’ve noted repeatedly, there is no reason to think that this is the correct formula for anything but disaster. From the News Hour:

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Here are the piss-poor NAEP results mentioned in passing…

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