The U.S. Department of Education has awarded nine states and the District of Columbia a total of $3.3 billion for a variety of education reforms in the second round of the Race to the Top competition. The winners were chosen from 19 finalists. Applications were judged on a 500-point scale.
Click on the winning states to see how they scored and how much money they were awarded.
Rebecca Sellers, an eighth-grade English teacher at the Lester Pre-K-8 school in Memphis, looked wary as she walked into the teachers’ lounge on a Monday afternoon last fall. The previous week, the school’s assistant principal, Isaac Robinson, had dropped in, unannounced, to watch Sellers teach as part of Tennessee’s new evaluation system.Now he was about [...]
One would expect a book by the CEO of a for-profit university to mount a vigorous defense of the much-maligned for-profit higher education sector. But what one might not expect is that the same book would do so in a thoughtful, well-researched manner that discusses not just the place of for-profit universities in education, but [...]
More states are closing failing charter schools, but shuttling students back to mediocre public schools could be doing the system’s most vulnerable children more harm than good.
