William Ayers may be getting a lot of attention these days, but the real education radical to keep your eye on is D.C. Schools Chancellor Michelle Rhee . As Clay Risen writes in The Atlantic , she is ???the most controversial figure in American public education.??? She's shaking up her district's central office bureaucracy, going to war with the teachers union, and pushing her staff to--this is crazy--be responsive to the concerns of parents. So, as I told the Washington Post the other day, the fact that Barack Obama calls her ???wonderful??? just might indicate that his instincts are reform-minded, after all.
