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Rhee Tackles Classroom Challenge - TIME
Rhee, then 37, had no experience running a school, let alone a district with 46,000 students that ranks last in math among 11 urban school systems. When Fenty called her, she was running a nonprofit called the New Teacher Project, which helps schools recruit good teachers. Most problematic of all, Rhee is not from Washington.
D.C. Schools Chief Makes Time Magazine Cover - washingtonpost.com
Inside the magazine, Rhee reveals she's a Democrat but came close to voting for Republican John McCain for president. She says a close friend begged her to give Democrat Barack Obama a chance.
Charlie Rose - Michelle Rhee
Michelle A. Rhee is the chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools system, and the founder of The New Teacher Project. Her parents immigrated to the United States from South Korea in the 1960s. She was raised in the Toledo, Ohio metropolitan region, graduating from Maumee Valley Country Day School in 1988. Rhee graduated from Cornell University in 1992 with a bachelor’s degree in government and from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University with a master’s degree in public policy. Source - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelle_Rhee
'100 mph' school chief seeks 'radical changes' - CNN.com
Rhee closed 23 schools in her first year as the head of the District of Columbia's public schools, fired 36 principals and cut 15 percent -- about 121 jobs -- from the central office staff. And she's making no apologies.
Can Michelle Rhee Save DC Schools? - News & Features (washingtonian.com)
Six chiefs have tried to fix DC’s schools in the past ten years—and failed. Now comes a 37-year-old Korean-American from Toledo with no experience running a school system who’s convinced she can succeed.
Michelle Rhee: Unconventional, Bee-Swallowing Reformer | Newsweek Next 2008 | Newsweek.com
Rhee, 37, has taken on the city's most unruly job: reforming the D.C. public schools. When the city's new mayor, Adrian Fenty, asked her to be his schools chancellor last summer, she refused at first. "Absolutely not. That's an impossible job," she recalls saying. D.C.'s public schools spend more per student than almost every other major school district but have some of the worst test scores in the country.
Can Michelle Rhee Save D.C.'s Schools? | Newsweek Education | Newsweek.com
By firing bad teachers and paying good ones six-figure salaries, Michelle Rhee just might save D.C.'s schools.
RGJ.com: EDAWN reduces staff by 40%
The Economic Development Authority of Western Nevada has trimmed its staff by 40 percent in the wake of financial cutbacks from the 2007 Legislature.
RGJ.com: Jim Rogers gets a mixed annual review
Everyone once in a while, you have to acknowledge a leader with balls. Chancellor Rogers has cajones. He's most certainly not afraid to piss other people off. Love him or hate him, he's got balls. "Rogers, who has said he will leave the job when his contr
RGJ.com: RSCVA loses three from sales staff
Three people resigned from the Reno-Sparks Convention & Visitors Authority convention sales staff in the last two weeks, two who were unwilling to “step up,” their boss said.
The 13-member sales staff plays an important role in attracting meetings an
RGJ.com: Someday your boss will be younger than you are
Whether it's a difference of two years or 20 years, chances are that you're going to be working for a younger boss one day.
As baby boomers age and younger, technology-savvy workers move up the career ladder at record speed, the generations are beginni
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