Michelle Rhee: The John Calipari of education?

[Bob Cook]

A USA Today investigation finds unusually high erasure rates for standardized tests at DC schools while charter-school darling Michelle Rhee was chancellor.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2011-03-28-1Aschooltesting28_CV_N.htm

Unusually high erasure rates are generally noted as evidence of cheating. Does mean their test scores will become (vacated)?

 

[Mizzougrad96]

I always hated that band.

 

[Football_Bat]

Suuuuuuuure you do.

 

[LongTimeListener]

Kevin Johnson has not vacated his right to hit that.

 

[HanSenSE]

You only write about us when you think we cheat on standardized tests.

 

[cyclingwriter]

I always hated that band.

took me a second to get that one.

 

[tapintoamerica]

Representatives of the institution's academic interests will be disassociated from the program.

 

[Det. Jimmy McNulty]

Michelle Rhee: One of the world's biggest scumbags.

 

[X-Hack]

Agree on your assessment of Rhee.

In fairness, I doubt she instructed the teachers to cheat. But she's responsible for creating that climate by pinning people's livelihoods on how kids did on questionably reliable, high-stakes standardized tests. Test results only get you so far, especially when you can't monitor the kid outside of class (and you don't get to cut the kids who suck).