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National Review: Race To The Top limps to a finish
- 08-31-2010
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Opinion by Frederick M. Hess/NPR
Frederick M. Hess is director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute.
That was another $4.35 billion poorly spent. Last week, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced the winners of the second and final round of the administration's heavily promoted and widely cheered Race to the Top school-reform program. Unfortunately, after all the headlines and hullabaloo, the results were so dismal they threatened to bring the entire exercise into disrepute. Heralded education-reform states Colorado and Louisiana were left out in the cold, while Duncan bizarrely found himself naming Ohio, Maryland, New York, and Hawaii among the ten round-two winners. (Tennessee and Delaware had been named round-one winners this spring.) Several of the winners clearly trail the pack on key reforms that Duncan had said RTT would reward. (more…)
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