The Lightning Rod
Michelle Rhee charged in as chancellor of the Washington, D.C., public schools wielding BlackBerrys and data-and a giant axe. She has made a city with possibly the country's worst public schools ground zero for education reform, and attracted a cadre of young zealots some critics call ?Rhee-bots.? Now the changes that she insists schoolchildren need are colliding head-on with the political wants of adults.
The Atlantic Monthly - Clay Risen, 10/17/2008