Michelle Rhee

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.

— Michelle Rhee

My grandfather was a teacher, my grandmother on my mom's side, four of my aunts, my sister-in-law, my best friend. So I've…

— Michelle Rhee

There’s a belief now that the problem with our schools is parents, that if we just had better parents we would have…

— Michelle Rhee

That should be the goal, is that every kid in every neighborhood, despite whatever challenges they may face, are getting a great…

— Michelle Rhee

Poverty is so significant that we can't expect to overcome the impacts of poverty in schools.

— Michelle Rhee

If you grew up in a lower-income community, or less well-off, the belief is that the way to change that circumstance is…

— Michelle Rhee

If a country puts its entire focus on making sure that the education system improves, then that's the kind of progress that…

— Michelle Rhee

We need to identify the least effective or ineffective teachers and for those people we need to either quickly accelerate their practice…

— Michelle Rhee

I think that one thing that people are missing is that we are never going to be able to fix this country's…

— Michelle Rhee

I believe that the teachers unions are doing exactly what they're supposed to be doing. They were designed to be professional organizations…

— Michelle Rhee

We've lost our competitive spirit. We've become so obsessed with making kids feel good about themselves that we've lost sight of building…

— Michelle Rhee

Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing…

— Michelle Rhee

We are always going to put the best interests of kids above the rights, privileges and priorities of adults.

— Michelle Rhee

We need to do everything we can to ensure every single child has an effective teacher every day, which means we need…

— Michelle Rhee

I'd rather deal with anger than apathy.

— Michelle Rhee

The notion about education has changed and that now it’s sort of much more aligned with, “Well, schools can’t combat poverty. We…

— Michelle Rhee

The reality in Washington D.C. is if you live in Tenleytown versus if you live in Anacostia, you get two wildly different…

— Michelle Rhee

I have an absolutely unshakable faith in kids, grounded in the fact that I worked for three years in one of the…

— Michelle Rhee

You may not do well, necessarily, up front, and in order to be the best, you've got to work hard.

— Michelle Rhee

An education reformer is as important in America as the first lady.

— Michelle Rhee

My parents were extraordinarily focused on education. It was the topic of every dinner conversation, is are you number one, are you…

— Michelle Rhee

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

— Michelle Rhee

We are in tough economic times right now, and the first thing we have to do is look at how we're spending…

— Michelle Rhee

We all have to have more rigorous expectations of our kids in America.

— Michelle Rhee

I think for what success looks like for me, it is a world in which you can look at the achievement scores,…

— Michelle Rhee