4 Replies to “Rhee-ding?”

  1. Grade 4 reading
    1992*: 188
    1994*: 179
    1998*: 182
    1998: 179
    2002: 191
    2003: 188
    2005: 191
    2007: 197
    2009: 202

    Grade 8 reading
    1998* 236
    1998: 236
    2002: 240
    2003: 239
    2005: 238
    2007: 241
    2009: 242

    These scores have been going up before Mrs. Rhee.

  2. Ha–i was going to make that point as well. Note Andy doesn’t point that out. He is guilty of the same strategies he pooh-poohs in another post.

    If someone who opposes them failed to point out such a detail, he would blast them. But he and his buddies do;t held themselves to the same standard.

  3. “Rhee credited a recent citywide focus on literacy for the school system’s gains.”

    Not Reading First, not charter schools, not new teachers, not TFA, not any of the conservative reform movement’s special sauce.

    I wonder if she truly has a clue why it happened.

  4. There’s something sad about “reformers” praising the work of a (possibly) dishonest teacher-basher.

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