Commonwealth Education Organization
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- Race to the Top
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| *July 13, 2011 RACE TO THE TOP COSTS STATES, ENDANGERS DEMOCRACY “The standards have quality problems. They have not been field-tested. They open the door for bias and indoctrination. They radically change language-arts curricula. And Race to the Top calls for testing and assessments that will inflict a cost burden on the states and take up valuable classroom instruction time.” >>read more>> |
| September 10, 2010 POLITICS AND THE SCORING OF RACE TO THE TOP APPLICATIONS “For the most part, the RTT rubric fails to provide objective methods for measuring the extent to which states meet criteria, leaving significant discretion in the evaluation.” >>read more<< |
| August 27, 2010 RACE TO THE TOP: GATES BACKS A BUNCH OF WINNERS “Several of the states that won grants in the federal Race to the Top competition received financial help from a well-known source: The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.” >>read more<< |
| August 25, 2010 U.S. SCHOOLS CHIEF TO PUSH DISCLOSURE OF EDUCATION DATA “U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan will call for all states and school districts to make public whether their instructors are doing enough to raise students' test scores and to share other school-level information with parents...” >>read more<< |
| August 24, 2010 RACE TO THE TOP ROUND-TWO WINNERS OFFER MIXED BAG OF REFORMS “(Lindsay) Burke (w/The Heritage Foundation) says the cost of adopting the Common Core standards will likely exceed the most generous Race to the Top grant. ‘All of the winners are states that have agreed to adopt national standards and tests, and the money they’ll receive from this competition will certainly not cover the costs of throwing-out their existing state standards and tests – which were developed at great taxpayer expense – and will not begin to cover the costs of implementing this new, behemoth national standards regime,’ she said.” >>read more<< |
| August 8, 2010 HOW ‘RACE TO THE TOP’ IS REWRITING U.S. EDUCATION “The program springs from a single sentence inserted in the stimulus law. Though it suggests that Duncan account for things such as teacher quality, data use, new standardized tests and school turnaround, it also allows for ‘criteria as the secretary deems appropriate.’ " >>read more<< |
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Commonwealth Education Organization . 3830 Saxonburg Blvd. Cheswick , Pa. 15024 . (412) 967-9691
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