Michelle Rhee: My Break With the Democrats

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18. Her statement about

the "data" being perfectly clear that a teacher is the most important factor in education outcomes is not supported by any"data" of which I am aware and is probably a myth. What the data does make perfectly clear is that the number of parents in the home, the incomes of the parents and the educational levels of the parents are the most important factors in determining student success in school and that teachers are only the most important factors in classrooms. That is a distinction with a difference as wide as the Grand Canyon. Neither Rhee nor any of the other stooges of the billionaire social engineers will go within a country mile of that data, and for some unfathomable reason they are never scuttled with it during their infomercial interviews.

In fact Rhee gave the interview merely to reinforce her false teacher quality meme, upon which she has built her career. It went unchallenged by Stewart. Mission accomplished, again.