Failed DC Chancellor Michelle Rhee uses StudentsFirst to sell memoir
Is this putting students first? Michelle Rhee’s new memoir is set to go on sale Tuesday and she is already trying to hawk it, using the website of her school reform organization, StudentsFirst, to attract buyers. The site has a free excerpt, which I found out about when I received the letter below from Rhee.
For my review of the book, click here, and for a review by Bill Turque, my colleague who covered her tenure as D.C. schools chancellor, click here.
Here’s the letter I (and no doubt many others) received from Rhee selling her book:
Dear Valerie –When I first started out in education, I had no idea just how challenging — and how rewarding — my path would be.The road from a second-grade classroom at an inner-city Baltimore school to founding
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