Connections: Rhee, Black, Walcott

Can a New Schools Chancellor Fix Education Reform's Image Problem?

NYU education professor Diane Ravich, who served in the George H. W. Bushs Education Department, said the Black debacle could push back against the trend of bringing in private-sector managers to remake school districts. It's simply a mistake of the kind of corporate business model to think that people are interchangeable cogs," said Ravitch, who has been critical of Bloomberg’s education agenda. "She simply didn't know the language, didn't know the issues and was not qualified for the job."