Where We Live: Funding Education Reform
Moving CT education reform forward without Race to the Top Funding
The Obama Administration’s “Race to the Top” is meant to close the achievement gap. CT has the highest achievement gap in the country but didn’t get funding. What is this race for, anyway?
The “Race To The Top” education funding contest is meant to spur states into making big changes in the way they teach students and evaluate teachers. In fact, the Obama Administration sees competitive grants as a new model for funding education. But what about the rights of states to educate children in a way that works best for them?
As a follow-up to our program about neighboring states that have received money from the “Race To The Top” program, today we talk with Connecticut Education Commissioners Mark McQuillan and other education experts about whether we’re on the right path toward better schools.
What strides did the state take to adhere to the federal plan? What’s a better method for funding education? Ultimately, is this really a “race” worth running?
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“Race to the Top”
This is an interesting article. It's important to provide quality education for our kids.We must find a way to support them to “Race to the Top”. My kid will go at one of the Colleges in Idaho but I want him to receive the best education possible.
race to the top, deva vu all over again.
have i already posted something to similar if not identical effect? forgive me, lord, i'm redundantly in need of pardon.
link to my seminal blog post: (warning: language unsuitable for radio) (in case it somehow blurts itself out on live air.)
http://orionoir.blogspot.com/2010/01/understanderstandering.html
Merit pay: Quantifying that which isn't quantity-based
It is with no small amusement that I read in the NYTimes Companies May Fail, But Directors Are In Demand. So, these folks run businesses in the ground, but can't manage to get themselves kicked off the short lists when it comes time to executivify for another company. And that's for a bottom-line job which can be measured in numbers.
When teaching becomes so cut-and-dried that every teacher is doing the same job and it can be quantified, then I'm all for "merit pay". When the particulars of every student's life, year, and day up until they take that standardized test can be accounted for, then I'm all for merit pay. Up til that point, if "merit pay" sounds like a shortcut for a bunch of union-bashers, well, there's a reason.
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