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Saturday, October 9, 2010

The Answer Sheet - The bankrupt 'school reform manifesto' of Rhee, Klein, etc.

The Answer Sheet - The bankrupt 'school reform manifesto' of Rhee, Klein, etc.

The bankrupt 'school reform manifesto' of Rhee, Klein, etc.

There are so many things wrong with the new “school reform manifesto” signed by 16 school district chiefs -- including New York’s Joel Klein and Washington’s Michelle Rhee -- and published in The Washington Post that it is hard to know where to start. There’s the intellectual dishonesty and scapegoating: It starts by saying that everybody is responsible for improving schools but then proceeds to bash teachers, and doesn’t say a single thing about the responsibility of superintendents. After eight years as the czar of New York City’s public schools, Klein might want to stop blaming other people for his failures.