Advocating Quote by 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 always, my…

— 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 better performing…

— Michelle Rhee

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

— 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 through education.

— 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 you can…

— Michelle Rhee

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

— 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 [American] economy…

— 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 the skills…

— Michelle Rhee

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

— Michelle Rhee

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

— Michelle Rhee