{"id":188368,"date":"2010-10-13T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T21:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/13\/good-riddance-8\/"},"modified":"2010-10-13T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T21:59:00","slug":"good-riddance-8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/10\/13\/good-riddance-8\/","title":{"rendered":"Good Riddance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to a hagiography on Michelle Rhee, now former Chancellor of the DC public schools on NPR today, and I had to change the channel.<\/p>\n<p>She got test scores up by focusing on nothing but, and the evidence is that, in one of the most disadvantaged school districts in the nation, she had no interest at all in early education, basically <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newamerica.net\/blog\/early-ed-watch\/2008\/yo-chancellor-rhee-whats-missing-dcps-five-year-plan-9120\">ignoring it in her 5 year plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/yglesias.thinkprogress.org\/2008\/12\/forgot_about_pre_k\/\">Matthew Yglesias noted 2 years ago<\/a>, &#8220;A certain type of person isn\u2019t interested in any education improvements  that don\u2019t involve picking fights with teacher\u2019s unions, and this seems  to me like perhaps an example of Rhee suffering from that affliction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Basically, she spent a lot of time being an asshole, because that&#8217;s what got her the good press, and teaching to the test, along with a headlong embrace of gentrification, were what caused the bump in her numbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was listening to a hagiography on Michelle Rhee, now former Chancellor of the DC public schools on NPR today, and I had to change the channel. She got test scores up by focusing on nothing but, and the evidence is that, in one of the most disadvantaged school districts in the nation, she had &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[968,974,1051],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-hack-journalism","category-hypocrisy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}