House Resigns as Memphis Superintendent
Gerry House is leaving her job as the change-minded superintendent in Memphis, Tenn., to lead a New York-based partnership that helps schools strive for better-prepared graduates and fewer dropouts.
Ms. House, the 1999 National Superintendent of the Year and one of the few women to lead a major urban school system, will leave the 112,000-student district April 3.
Her eight years in Memphis have been filled with successes and strife, and most definitely change. In one of the most far-reaching attempts by a large district to bring about comprehensive schoolwide change, Ms. House has required each of the city's 161 schools to adopt one of several "whole school" design models—efforts that worked well in some schools and not...
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