I never really cared for comic book revisionism. When they replaced Hal Jordan as Green Lantern I screamed bloody murder. However, when John Byrne took bumbling mad scientist Lex Luthor and turned him into a corporate fiend, it was a brilliant move. In the past, Luthor had build giant robots, death rays, a green and [...]
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Lex Luthor is Waiting for Superman
September 20, 2010Michelle Rhee and the Death of the Washington Post
January 28, 2010There was a time when the Washington Post was breaking new ground in journalism. Today, it seems that the Washington Post is instead breaking new ground in journalistic ethics. The Post made news this past summer when publisher Katharine Weymouth announced plans to hold policy dinners at her home and produced marketing fliers that offered [...]
Michelle Rhee’s Double Standard on Sex with Children
January 24, 2010In the February issue of Fast Company magazine, Michelle Rhee was asked about the 266 teachers that she laid off this past October. Her jaw dropping response was, “I got rid of teachers who had hit children, who had had sex with children, who had missed 78 days of school,” Rhee says. “Why wouldn’t we [...]
Catching Up With Michelle Rhee
November 26, 2009Reprinted from www.thatsrightnate.com – November 24, 2009 Yes, it’s one of those Michelle Rhee articles and I’m trying to figure out where to begin as we catch up with the single most destructive force in education today. Michelle recently got engaged to former NBA star, Sacramento Mayor, and accused sexual predator Kevin Johnson. This is [...]
Michelle Rhee and the Washington Education Miracle Part IV
November 26, 2009And now gentle reader, we find ourselves at the penultimate act of our little drama. Throughout the summer of 2009, the DC Public Schools recruited like a drunken frat boy collecting phone numbers at a kegger. By the end of the summer, there were a whole host of new, young, and energetic students ready to [...]
Michelle Rhee and the Washington Education Miracle Part 3
November 26, 2009Michelle Rhee needed a way to get rid of bad teachers. In June of this year she dismissed about 80 tenured teachers for poor performance in June, after giving them 90 days’ notice and a chance to improve and there was barely any public protest, but this process was too slow. Tenure was her biggest [...]
Michelle Rhee and The Washington Education Miracle Part 2
November 26, 2009I think if there is one thing I have learned over the last 15 months it’s that cooperation, collaboration and consensus-building are way overrated,” Michelle Rhee at the Aspen Institute’s education summit at the Mayflower Hotel. Since being appointed as Chancellor of the DC Public Schools, Michelle Rhee has fought a battle with the city’s [...]
Michelle Rhee and the Washington Education Miracle Part 1
November 26, 2009Reprinted from www.thatsrightnate.com – October 21, 2009 Previously, I have posted about the wonderful work done by basketball player turned educator Arne Duncan in Chicago. Tonight, we look at the dynamic young go getter who is saving the Washington DC public schools. Her accolades are many with education luminaries like Oprah and George W. Bush [...]
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