The Answer Sheet Archive: Race to the Top
Defending Arne Duncan, sort of
Education Secretary Arne Duncan is getting bashed by critics and even supporters for telling Congress that 82 percent of public schools could be at risk of failing to meet education goals this year, up from 37 percent last year.
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Valerie Strauss
| March 10, 2011; 4:23 PM ET |
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Accountability, No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top
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education secretary arne duncan; arne duncan; nclb; no child left behind; 82 percent; ayp; adequate yearly progress; 82 percent and ayp;
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The irony of Obama’s ‘help’ for Wisconsin teachers
President Obama’s support to Wisconsin's protesting teachers is ironic, given that teachers and their collective bargaining rights have already been undermined by his education reform policies.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 21, 2011; 11:18 AM ET |
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Race to the Top, Standardized Tests, Teacher assessment, Teachers
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collective bargaining, gov. scott walker, labor, labor movement, madison schools, madison schools closed, madison teachers, wisconsin, wisconsin governor, wisconsin protests, wisconsin teachers
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Should Obama be commencement contest prize?
Again President Obama is offering himself as a commencement speaker to the high school that wins a new contest. So what's the problem?
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Valerie Strauss
| February 2, 2011; 4:00 AM ET |
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High School, Race to the Top
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commencement contest, commencement speaker, commencement speech, obama commencement, obama commencement speaker, president obama and commencement, race to the top contest, stephen colbert
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'It makes no sense:' A dissection of Obama's education view
Here is a dissection of what President Obama said about education in his State of the Union speech, plus more.
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Valerie Strauss
| February 1, 2011; 5:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, International competitiveness, Race to the Top, School turnarounds/reform, Yong Zhao
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china and india and education, china education, chinese schools, education, education policy, education reform, indian schools, international competitiveness, obama speech, president obama, president obama school reform, public schools, race to the top, school reform, schools, state of the union, u.s. education
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Obama’s faulty education logic: What he said and failed to say
Someone should have told President Obama that there were important contradictions in the education portion of his State of the Union address before he delivered it to Congress.
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Valerie Strauss
| January 25, 2011; 10:15 PM ET |
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No Child Left Behind, Poverty, Race to the Top
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education reform, no child left behind, obama, obama education initiative, obama education reform, obama race to the top, obama speech, obama state of the union, president obama, public school reform, public schools, race to the top, state of the union, state of the union speech
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What Tom Friedman got wrong about schools and why it matters
The great New York Times columnist Tom Friedman wrote in a recent piece that if he were a cub reporter today, he’d want to be “covering the epicenter of national security -- but that would be the Education Department.” If Friedman the cub reporter had turned in this piece, a veteran education editor would have sent it back, asking him to back up his contentions with research. He’d have a hard time.
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Valerie Strauss
| November 29, 2010; 5:00 AM ET |
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Guest Bloggers, Race to the Top, School turnarounds/reform
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arne duncan, education secretary arne duncan, performance pay, public schools, school reform, schools, standardized tests, teacher evaluation, the new york times, tom friedman
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