http://www.edreform.com/edspresso-shots/not-your-average-cover-girl/ Since 1993, the leading voice and advocate for lasting, substantive and structural education reform in the U.S. Fri, 31 May 2013 12:52:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://www.edreform.com/edspresso-shots/not-your-average-cover-girl/#comment-1808 Disturbed in the Burbs Mon, 01 Dec 2008 22:30:37 +0000 http://www.edspresso.com/?p=2631#comment-1808 There's probably not a district in the country that couldn't use a little Rhee nightmare to wake people up. Hanushek's findings are chilling: "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." And then there's the flip side of that - sub-par suburban schools skating on the efforts of parents who are outsourcing to tutors what the schools, and their weak teachers, are not delivering. When she's cleaned up D.C., I'd love to see her grab the reigns of the DOE and ratchet up No Child Left Behind. There’s probably not a district in the country that couldn’t use a little Rhee nightmare to wake people up. Hanushek’s findings are chilling: “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.” And then there’s the flip side of that – sub-par suburban schools skating on the efforts of parents who are outsourcing to tutors what the schools, and their weak teachers, are not delivering. When she’s cleaned up D.C., I’d love to see her grab the reigns of the DOE and ratchet up No Child Left Behind.

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