
Barack Obama now says unemployment will never fall like he promised in 2009.
Radical: Fighting to Put Students First
By Michelle Rhee
(HarperCollins, 286 pages, $27.99)
It’s been said that personnel systems are the lifeblood of a bureaucracy, a point made clear in “Radical: Fighting to Put Students First” by Michelle Rhee, founder of StudentsFirst, a political advocacy organization for education reform.
Teachers are the lifeblood of Rhee’s reform.
“It has been my faithful study to collect my duty from a just appreciation of every circumstance by which it might be affected.”
References
George Washington, “First Inaugural Address,” in Writings (New York: Library of America, 1997).