A growing number of states have decided not to participate in the Obama administration’s Race to the Top grant program, forgoing hundreds of millions of… Read More
It’s not exactly news that the federal No Child Left Behind program has encouraged the states to define proficiency downward in order to avoid triggering… Read More
It appears that Race to the Top (RTTT)–the government’s latest attempt to dole out federal dollars for state education budgets–is turning into more of a… Read More
As Race to the Top – the Obama administration’s $4.35 billion grant program designed to spur education reform – becomes a summer-long marathon for the… Read More
The Obama Administration’s signature K-12 education program, Race to the Top, has gotten a lot of press in the last couple weeks with the announcement… Read More
Monday’s announcement that Delaware and Tennessee would win the first round of Race to the Top funds put a reality check on the grand expectations… Read More
The administration has just announced its round one Race to the Top winners, and only two states – drum roll please – Tennessee and Delaware,… Read More
Although significant attention is being paid to the Obama Administration’s “Race to the Top” first round winners, one state is implementing rigorous education reforms without… Read More
President Obama’s proposal Monday to link Title I funding to adoption of education standards has the education world abuzz. During a speech to the National… Read More
It appears that President Obama will exempt education from his so-called spending freeze. Despite the fact that Obama already doubled the Department of Education’s budget… Read More
