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Michelle Rhee
CEO and President, The New Teacher Project
Michelle Rhee serves as Chief Executive Officer and President of The New Teacher Project, a national non-profit organization dedicated to increasing the number of outstanding individuals who become public school teachers and to creating environments for all educators that maximize their impact on student achievement.
The New Teacher Project (1997- present):
- Founded and grew organization over 10-year period, partnering with over 200 school districts nationwide, launching more than 40 programs in 23 states and recruiting, preparing or certifying over 23,000 highly qualified teachers for low-performing schools in urban areas.
- Contracted with most of the large urban school districts in the nation including New York City, Philadelphia, Chicago, Miami, Baltimore, Oakland and the District of Columbia; currently provide between 10-30% of all incoming new teachers to many of these cities.
- Developed New York City Teaching Fellows program, which has 8,000 fellows teaching in New York’s highest-need schools and provides approximately two-thirds of the high-need subject area teachers hired by in New York City.
- Led research and publication of two seminal policy studies in urban education: “Unintended Consequences,” detailing how teachers’ union contracts prohibit urban districts from hiring the best teacher talent; and “Missed Opportunities,” outlining the primary teacher recruitment barriers in urban school districts.
- Advised many of the nation’s most successful superintendents on issues of teacher quality and human capital in urban districts.
- Initiated work with Chancellor Klein to modify collective bargaining agreement in New York City through data collection and testimony before independent arbitration panel about the impact of teacher transfer provisions on teacher quality and student performance.
- Spearheaded landmark state legislation in California (SB 1655) which gained bipartisan and community support (including ACORN and MALDEV) and passed the state senate by a 33-1 margin. The bill allows principals in low-performing schools to bypass crippling collective bargaining provisions when hiring teachers.
- Won Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award in 2004, presented for efforts to confront, challenge and correct social injustice in the United States and Peter Jennings Award for Civic Leadership in 2007, Teach For America’s top honor for program alumni, in recognition of impact on public education.
Teach For America (1992-1995):
- Taught in Harlem Park Community School, one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in Baltimore City, effecting significant measurable gains in student achievement. Over a two-year period, moved students scoring on average at the 13th percentile on national standardized tests to 90% of students scoring at the 90th percentile or higher.
- Classroom practices featured on “The Home Show” and in the Wall Street Journal and the Hartford Courant.
Education
- Harvard University, Kennedy School of Government, Master in Public Policy (1997).
- Cornell University, Bachelor of Arts in Government (1992).
Boards and Publications
- Board of Directors - St. HOPE Public Schools (Sacramento, CA),
- Advisory boards - National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), the National Center for Alternative Certification (NCAC); and Project REACH, the University of Phoenix School of Education.
- Faculty for Aspen Institute; sat on the State of California “Ensuring Access” panel on Quality Teachers
- Authored editorials and commentaries for such publications as Education Week and
Education Next, and contributed a chapter on teacher recruitment and selection to
Building a Quality Teaching Force, slated for publication by Pearson/Prentice Hall in 2007
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