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D.C.'s Mayoral Primary: When Losing Can Feel Like Winning
By Eleanor Clift - Politics DailyThe candidate I supported won the Republican primary for mayor in the District of Columbia, a victory that doesn't signal a change in my politics -- nor his. Adrian Fenty declined the GOP nod, the product of write-in votes, and will leave office in January after a single term as the youngest and, at least in my memory, the city's most energetic and dynamic mayor. I backed Fenty and when he lost his bid for reelection, it felt like a member of the family had taken a big hit. He was my councilman in Ward 4, which is racially mixed, and I've been buying running shoes from his parents' running ...
Why D.C.'s Next Mayor Ought to Keep Michelle Rhee (Who Doesn't Love My Husband)
By Melinda Henneberger - Politics DailyIf Washington, D.C., Mayor Adrian Fenty loses to his Democratic primary challenger, D.C. Council Chairman Vince Gray, this Tuesday as expected, I hope Gray does something wholly unexpected and finds a way to keep Michelle Rhee on as chancellor of the city's long-struggling public schools. Not because she has in the last three years miraculously transformed the schools, where only 9 percent of ninth-graders will graduate from college within five years of leaving the system. And not because she's necessarily the superwoman we've been waiting for, as per Davis Guggenheim's admiring documentary ...
Arne Duncan Helps Students Put Best Foot Forward in School Walk
By Emmarie Huetteman - Politics DailyEducation Secretary Arne Duncan, Washington Mayor Adrian Fenty, Washington Chancellor of Schools Michelle Rhee and Federal Highway Administrator Victor Mendez helped more than 100 students start the second day of school Tuesday -- with a walk. The two-block walk to Maury Elementary School in Washington promoted the Transportation Department's Safe Routes to School program, in which more than 6,000 schools participate nationwide. Officials encouraged walking and riding bikes to school with family and friends as a healthy, safe habit for kids. Click the video below to learn more. ...
Does Teach for America Hold the Answers to Education Reform?
By Doris Jwo - Politics DailyWho was the greatest teacher you ever had? I remember mine, but I can't quite put my finger on what made her so good. It didn't have anything to do with age or gender. Nothing to do with years of experience or where she got her college diploma. There was some indescribable quality, a certain touch. The way how, during tests, I would remember exactly how she explained concepts but couldn't necessarily remember the same ideas as explained by the textbook. Of all teachers, why was she so special? And why weren't there more like her at my school? Despite constant indicators that our nation has ...
Second Life Addicts, Dropout Factories and Sundance 2010's Last Gasp
By Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady - Politics DailyPARK CITY, Utah -- We are almost T minus zero here at Sundance and honestly feel like filmmaking warriors after the boot camp experience of 10 days of movies, alcohol, press, altitude and jangly nerves. We are grown women now. We've had the distinct pleasure to be part of an absolutely excellent year of non-fiction entries in the festival. Everyone is at the top of their game in our category, and it feels damn good. Today, we saw "Waiting for Superman" an infuriating and sometimes deflating new film directed by Davis Guggenheim. This ambitious doc takes on the failed public school system and ...
DC School Chief's 'Sex' Remarks Stir Controversy
By David Knowles - AOL News(Jan. 26) -- Washington, D.C.'s schools chancellor is facing harsh criticism for her claim that among the 266 city teachers she fired last October, some "had sex with children." Speaking with the magazine Fast Company, Michelle Rhee was explaining the criteria she used to determine which teachers the city let go in the face of a $43.9 million budget shortfall. "I got rid of teachers who had hit children, who had sex with children, who had missed 78 days of school," Rhee said. "Why wouldn't we take those things into consideration?" The problem for Rhee is that if school authorities knew of ...
D.C. Council Accuses Schools Chief Michelle Rhee of Illegally Firing Teachers
By David Sessions - Politics DailyA day-long oversight hearing erupted into open warfare between the D.C. Council and public schools chancellor Michelle Rhee, whom the council accused of ignoring its recommendations on how to cut the 2010 budget, the Washington Post reported Friday. Instead of scrapping a 2010 summer school program, Rhee opted to fire 266 teachers to help close an impending budget shortfall, a move she did not reveal until the Thursday hearing. Her opponents, which include teachers' unions and D.C. Council Chairman Vincent Gray, characterized her actions as an illegal attempt to purge older teachers. Conflict ...
Oprah's 'Power List' Is Loaded With Obama Connections
By Lynn Sweet - Politics DailyOprah Winfrey's first "Power List" has lots of links to the Obama White House and other Washington political and government outposts. ...
Merit Pay: Buzzword or Real Education Reform?
By Frances Tobin - Politics DailyAs if public schools don't have enough on their plate already, a contentious and protracted debate regarding teacher compensation is taking place at school districts across the country. For decades, students, teachers, parents, and administrators at all levels of education -- including post-secondary schools -- have clashed in disagreement over the advantages, or shortcomings, of a merit or performance-based pay structure. This compensation plan, which essentially proposes a direct link between teachers' salaries and the performance and success of their students, has seen fits and starts ...
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