Posted by Neal McCluskey on August 24, 2010
So the much ballyhooed Race to the Top program – $4.35 billion out of nearly $110 billion in federal education stimulus and bailouts – is over, with today’s announcement of ten round-two winners. Who knows for sure how the winners were ultimately determined – point allocation was highly subjective – but it’s hard to be impressed [...]
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Tags: edcuation reform, Education and Child Policy, federal education funding, national education standards, Race to the Top | 
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Posted by Neal McCluskey on August 24, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
So the much ballyhooed Race to the Top program — $4.35 billion out of nearly $110 billion in federal education stimulus and bailouts — is over, with today’s announcement of ten round-two winners. Who knows for sure how the winners were ultimately determined – point allocation was highly subjective — but it’s hard to be [...]
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Tags: Education, Education and Child Policy, Massachusetts, Race to the Top | No Comments »
Posted by Andrew J. Coulson on July 29, 2010
By Andrew J. Coulson
President Obama today touted his Race to the Top program, which pressures states to, among other things, adopt national education standards. Also today, the New York Board of Regents revealed that it had been misleading its citizens for years, giving them an inflated notion of how well their children were performing academically. Last year 77 percent of students [...]
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Tags: Education and Child Policy, national education standards, Race to the Top | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on June 17, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
Finished with my woman
‘Cause she couldn’t help me with my mind
People think I’m insane
Because I am frowning all the time
- Black Sabbath, “Paranoid”
According to the Fordham Institute’s Chester Finn, I and others like me are “paranoid.” So why, like Ozzy Osbourne, am I “frowning all the time?” Because I look at decades of public [...]
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Tags: curriculum, curriculum standards, drinking age, Education, Education and Child Policy, education funding, education system, elementary and secondary education, federal dollars, General, Government, government control, no child left behind, parent, President Obama, public school, public schooling, public schools, Race to the Top, race to the top fund, secondary education, standards, unions | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on May 18, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
There’s a lot to learn about going on in federal education policy today, and none of it is good.
First, Steven Brill offfers a revealing look at the Race to the Top evaluation process in a piece that can be added to the ever-growing pile of evidence that Race to the Top isn’t even close to the objective [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Bailout, common core, Education, Education and Child Policy, education policy, elementary and secondary education, federal deficit, General, national standards, Race to the Top | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on May 18, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
There’s a lot to learn about going on in federal education policy today, and none of it is good.
First, Steven Brill offfers a revealing look at the Race to the Top evaluation process in a piece that can be added to the ever-growing pile of evidence that Race to the Top isn’t even close to the objective [...]
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Tags: Afghanistan, Bailout, common core, Education, Education and Child Policy, education policy, elementary and secondary education, federal deficit, General, national standards, Race to the Top | No Comments »
Posted by Neal McCluskey on May 18, 2010
By Neal McCluskey
There’s a lot to learn about what’s going on in federal education policy today, and none of it is good.
First, Steven Brill offers a revealing look at the Race to the Top evaluation process in a piece that can be added to the ever-growing pile of evidence that Race to the Top isn’t even close to the [...]
Categories: Politics |
Tags: Afghanistan, Bailout, common core, Education, Education and Child Policy, education policy, elementary and secondary education, federal deficit, General, national standards, Race to the Top | No Comments »
