Michelle Rhee is probably one of the most polarizing figures in American education currently, and is polarizing almost entirely due to her battles with the DC educational establishment toward the end of the last decade. This book, which is pretty positive toward Rhee on a whole, tries to explain how she got to that point, and how the DC battles occurred.

The book tries very hard to be even-handed, often to a fault. That might be the only flaw in what is otherwise a fairly well-written while basic piece on the DC educational battles. I liked the basic outline of Rhee's rise, but would have preferred more detail as to the theories and policies regarding the educational systems in play. The book pretty much left me wanting in that way - in a book that could have done more to swing me to one side or the other, it instead asks a lot of simply accepting what's there. Kind of unfortunate.

This was worth my time, probably worth your time as well. Just don't expect a huge payoff, I guess.