Michelle Rhee Quotes and Sayings - Page 1

“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

#Kids #Sight #Skills
“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

#Running #Country #Thinking
“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

#Leadership #Education #Money
“I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.”
-- Michelle Rhee

#Apathy #Deals
“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. Itâ€™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 childâ€™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

#Country #Children #Educational
“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

#Jobs #Children #Creativity
“We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.”
-- Michelle Rhee

#Kids #Rights #Priorities

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