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Education Reform is the New Game in Town
What’s not to like about the Race to the Top? Plenty, it seems.
To be competitive, states had to in effect buy into a reform agenda the federal government designed, including promoting the effectiveness of teachers, allowing more wiggle room for public charter schools, tracking data on student performance, getting the unions to buy into the program and making the case that the state really could implement all these good ideas.
By Peter Harkness
Full Story: http://www.governing.com/column/education-reform-new-game-town
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Montana will apply for a once in a lifetime "Race to the Top" grant from the U.S. Department of Education http://matr.net/article-39164.html
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