Radical: fighting to put students first

✍ Scribed by Rhee, Michelle

Publisher: HarperCollins
Year: 2013;2012
Tongue: English
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a fearless and pioneering advocate for education reform, draws on her own life story and delivers her plan for better American schools.

Rhee's goal is to ensure that laws, leaders, and policies are making students--not adults--our top priority, and she outlines concrete steps that will put us on a dramatically different course. Informing her critique are her extraordinary experiences in education: her years of teaching in inner-city Baltimore; her turbulent tenure as chancellor of the Washington, DC public schools; and her current role as CEO of the education nonprofit StudentsFirst. Rhee draws on dozens of compelling examples from schools she's worked in and studied, from students who've left behind unspeakable home lives and thrived in the classroom to teachers whose groundbreaking methods have produced unprecedented leaps in student achievement.

An incisive and intensely personal call-to-arms, Michelle Rhee's...

✦ Subjects

Education--United States;School management and organization--United States;Schulreform;School management and organization;Education;Erlebnisbericht;Autobiographie;Education -- United States;School management and organization -- United States;United States;Rhee, Michelle -- 1969-;USA

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