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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has more power than any other education secretary in the nation’s history. Duncan possesses $4.35 billion dollars in discretionary funds to push the reforms his administration believes will turn around the country’s failing schools, such as more charters and higher standards. What’s more, to get a piece of the money states must compete for it.
The competition is called the “Race to the Top,” and it is unlike any education reform efforts of the past. This program starts at the launch of Sputnik in 1957 and traces the growing involvement of the federal government in public education.
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December 4, 2009 at 12:14 pm
christine mulcahy says:
It seems that no bad idea stays dead. A study of performance pay in Texas,as reported in the Dallas Morning News, found that the $300 million spent on merit pay for teachers over the last three years in Texas did not produce the big boost in student achievement and the program is now defunct. Researchers for Texas A&M University, Vanderbilt University, and the University of Missouri stated that there is no systematic evidence that TEEG had an impact on student achievement gains.