“Where’s the MERIT in Merit Pay and Other Education Reforms?” An insightful PODCAST on Michelle Rhee’s favorite corporate-reform solution from Dr. Vickie Markavitch, Superintendent of Oakland Schools…

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“I just attended the Detroit Michigan Regional Policy Conference held on Mackinac Island.  A prime focus of the conference was education and the two key note speakers brought in to speak on education were former Governor Jeb Bush and Michelle Rhee former Chancellor of Washington D.C. Schools. They brought forward their preferred reforms which were primarily choice through charters, vouchers called “scholarships”, and merit pay for teachers.” – Dr. Markavitch (Hear the details – click on image, above)

RESOURCES

• Market-oriented education reforms’ rhetoric trumps reality
• Broader, BOLDER Approach to Education
• Michelle Rhee and the Washington Post – John Merrow
• “RheeFormy Logic & Goofball Rating Schemes: Comments & Analysis on the Students First State Policy Grades”
• Michelle Rhee’s State Policy Report Card

• Rhee’s Report Card correlations to the NAEP

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