Radical (30 page)

About the Author

Michelle Rhee
is the founder and CEO of StudentsFirst, a political advocacy organization for education reform. She served as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools from 2007 to 2010. She is also the founder of The New Teacher Project and a former Teach For America corps member. She divides her time between California—with her husband, Kevin Johnson, the mayor of Sacramento—and Nashville, Tennessee, with her daughters, Starr and Olivia.

 

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Credits

Cover design by Richard Ljoenes

Cover photograph by Jeff Lipsky

Copyright

The names of some of the students featured throughout this book have been changed to protect their privacy.

RADICAL.
Copyright © 2013 by Michelle Rhee. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this ebook on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins ebooks.

FIRST EDITION

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Rhee, Michelle.
Radical : fighting to put students first / Michelle Rhee.
p. cm.
ISBN 978-0-06-220398-4
1. Public schools—United States. 2. Educational change—United States. 3. School improvement programs—United States. 4. Education—Aims and objectives—United States. 5. Rhee, Michelle. I. Title.
LA217.R495 2013
371.010973—dc23                              2012038474

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Epub Edition © FEBRUARY 2013 ISBN: 9780062204004