Clay Risen is an editor at the New York Times, and is the author of A Nation on Fire: America in the Wake of the King Assassination. His work has appeared in The New Republic, Smithsonian, and the New York Times Sunday Magazine.
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MICHELLE RHEE CHARGED IN as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools wielding BlackBerrys and data—and a giant axe. She has made a city with possibly the country’s worst public schools ground zero for education reform, and attracted a cadre of young zealots some critics call “Rhee-bots.” Now the changes that she insists schoolchildren need are colliding head-on with the political wants of adults.… More »
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