As the education community absorbs the news, Huffington Post’s Sam Chaltain makes a public request of Rhee’s efforts:

I wish Michelle Rhee would use her influence to help a million Americans urge their elected officials to pass policies that will usher in a new era of school improvement, one that is grounded in three core conditions:

1. We will measure all things worth measuring in the context of what our children will need to learn to be successful in this Google-icious world — where rote learning counts for less and less;
2. We will make sure that we know how to measure what we set out to measure;
3. We will agree to attach no more importance to measurable indicators than we attach to things that are equally or more important — even if they elude our instruments.