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I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Apathy
Deals
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An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
America
Firsts
Important
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We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Kids
America
Expectations
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Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Overcoming
Poverty
School
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You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Hard Work
May
Order
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I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Needs
People
Thinking
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We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Kids
Priorities
Rights
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In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Achievement
Parent
School
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If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that you can see.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Country
Focus
Progress
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Creativity is good and whatever. But if the children don't know how to read, I don't care how creative you are. You're not doing your job.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Jobs
Children
Creativity
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If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is through education.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Belief
Circumstances
Community
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That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great education in our public schools.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Kids
Goal
School
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I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's [American] economy in the long run until we fix our public education system.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Running
Country
Thinking
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We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building the skills they need to actually be good at things.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Kids
Sight
Skills
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We need to do everything we can to ensure every single child has an effective teacher every day, which means we need to identify who are the most highly effective teachers, and we should recognize and reward them for the incredible professionals that they are.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Teacher
Children
Mean
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My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've always, my entire life, been surrounded by teachers, and because of that I've had a tremendous respect for what teachers can do, the power that they can have.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Mom
Teacher
Grandmother
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We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice or move them out of the profession. That's what I believe and quite frankly I have never met anybody at least to my face who said they disagree with that notion.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Teacher
Believe
Moving
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My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you getting all As, if not, why not. You need to do better. So my entire orientation and focus growing up was around doing your best and making sure that you were going to get the best education possible.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Focus
Growing Up
Numbers
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My parents came from an environment where everyone knew that the way to be successful was to get a great education, and that was going to be your ticket in life. If you could succeed in education then you would succeed in life, so that was sort of the driving force behind my parents' upbringing, and therefore kind of how they brought me up.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Parent
Successful
Way
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Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs. In the United States, taxpayers spend almost $600 billion annually on public education, so it's not unreasonable to ask what all that money is producing. In fact, it's irresponsible not to know.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Education
Jobs
Leadership
Money
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I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores, the academic scores, of any school anywhere in this country [the USA], and you wouldn't be able to look at the score and determine what the racial makeup or the socioeconomic makeup of that school is simply because of the academic achievement levels.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Country
Makeup
School
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I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations that protect the rights and privileges and pay of their members. The problem is that we don't have an organized national interest group with the same heft as the teachers union that's advocating on behalf of children.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Teacher
Believe
Children
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The notion about education has changed and that now it’s sort of much more aligned with, “Well, schools can’t combat poverty. We can’t possibly expect schools to do the work to overcome poverty.” I think that notion which has changed over the last few decades is part, not all, but part of what is maybe leading to people feeling less of a sense of possibility.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
People
School
Thinking
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I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the worst public schools in Baltimore, with kids most people would write off because of their backgrounds. But, when I set high expectations, at the end of the day, these kids went from scoring at the bottom on standardized tests, to scoring at the top, despite their unfortunate circumstances.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Kids
School
Writing
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We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending the dollars that we have, and at what kind of return on investment we're getting. Because I think it will show that spending more money without fixing the fundamental flaws in the system won't produce anything different in terms of results. In DC, we were spending a whole lot of money on things that had no positive impact on students' achievement levels.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Impact
Thinking
Tough Economic Times
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The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different educational experiences. It’s the biggest social injustice imaginable. What we are allowing to happen in this day and age, we are still allowing the color of a child’s skin and the Zip code they live in to dictate their educational outcome, and therefore their life outcome. We are robbing them every single day of their futures. And everybody in this country should be infuriated by that.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Children
Country
Educational
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There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have better performing kids and, therefore, we wouldn’t have a problem at all. But what’s missing in that equation is that you do have a lot of parents in this country who are very involved in their children’s education and who do want something better. They want to see better for their kids. They know that they’re in schools that aren’t performing particularly well and if you look at how we treat those parents, it is quite poorly.
Michelle Rhee / Educator
Children
Country
School
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