FWIW, posted here: http://platosbeard.org/archives/695.
—ravi
On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:26 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
> Here are some notes I wrote up for the teachers' union in Oakland, as a result of Rhee's visit. If any of you work in education, perhaps these thoughts/words might be useful.
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> Joanna
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> Rhee's Framing of the Debate on Education
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> On the evening of Februrary 7, Michelle Rhee, former chancellor of DC public schools and the public face of the opaquely funded StudentsFirst, addressed an audience of some four thousand people at the Paramount theater in Oakland. This lecture was one of a number of lectures purchased as a series, and did not imply any particular interest in Rhee or in education by the older and relatively affluent crowd attending, the sort of crowd one finds at similar series, whether theater, ballet, or classical music.
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