Education Next – Paul E. Peterson
“Michelle Rhee’s public popularity has shifted upward within the District of Columbia, pollsters tell us, but the elites who chair the committee set up by the National Research Council (NRC) of the National Academy of Science to assess Rhee’s chancellorship are holding firm to their anti-Rhee convictions, no matter what the evidence. Gains on the National Assessment of Educational Progress under Rhee’s tenure were much larger than average gains for the other ten urban school districts.”(more)