Find out who is holding discussions
about Race to the Top.
And while it's premature to reach any conclusions
about Race to the Top's impact on student outcomes, ambitious Race to the Top adopters, such as Tennessee and the District of Columbia, are posting encouraging student gains.
If you've been reading my blog, you're aware that I've expressed concerns
about Race to the Top, i3, Florida Senate Bill 6, overly enthusiastic claims for the power of value - added teacher evaluation, and so on.
When I was writing consistently
about Race to the Top a couple months back, for instance, I kept flashing back to the state compliance plans under NCLB and the early experiences with Reading First.
Later this week you will be able to read my interviews with other New York educators who figure in my story
about the Race to the Top and what it meant for New York.
On sober, morning - after reflection, let me say
this about Race to the Top.
Gov. Chris Gregoire, who was in Washington, D.C., last week to talk to Duncan and Obama
about Race to the Top, returned saying that Washington wouldn't be seeing any of the money, at least not in this round.
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Mr. Duncan sat on the sidelines for weeks as states and unions bickered
about Race to the Top applications.
«When you look at the press releases and public speeches of federal officials, they are quick to claim, «Look at how successful we are because we've got a lot of policy changes,»» said Paul Manna, an associate professor at the College of William and Mary who has written
about Race to the Top.
And that makes it impossible to quantify just how many points buy - in is truly worth, said Andy Smarick, a visiting fellow with the Washington - based Thomas B. Fordham Institute who has been tracking and writing extensively
about Race to the Top.
Not exact matches
The United States and China are also working on the technology needed
to build hypersonic missiles, raising concerns
about a new arms
race among the world's
top three superpowers.
I walked out of The Sound of Music; something
about Maria
racing to the
top of a hill singing with no hint of asthmatic reaction ruined it for me.
Could they be
about to return
to the
top tier of endurance
racing?
It looks
to me like Arsenal will be the only team from the current
top three of the Premier League that will have anything but the Premier League title
race to worry
about by next week, always assuming that the Gunners manage
to get past Watford at the Emirates stadium on Sunday, but how will that affect things?
I do not know whether Henry had his words
about Giroud and Arsenal's need
to sign a
top quality striker in mind when he spoke
to Sky Sports
about his thoughts on how the Premier League title
race will shape up in the coming months.
Manchester City star Samir Nasri admits his side need
to forget
about catching Chelsea in the Premier League title
race and focus on making sure they don't slip out of the
top four.
Matt used
to race his Mustang 5.0 in the
Top the Cops program when he was in high school, and when I tell him I'm there
to write
about it, he's alarmed: «Are they closing it?»
Giroud and Sanchez were joint
top scorers for Arsenal with 13 before the game and both added one
to their tallies as Arsenal
raced to their seventh Premiership win in a row, but Giroud still refuses
to worry
about going all the way
to the
top of the table just yet.
It's not the worst situation for Kubica, who can use the time
to further develop and learn more
about the Pirelli tyres - his inability
to get on
top of them in Abu Dhabi was apparently one of the main reasons why Williams passed him over for the
race seat.
The one fact of the mighty empiricist in this article is that we were in 4 cup finals in the last 5 years and won 3 the rest of the piece is opinion
about the unfair treatment of his supplier... another fact is that we were incapable of getting past the last 16 in the CL in that time and another fact is that we were never at any point serious contenders
to win the EPL and another fact is that at the end of that cup run we dropped out of the
top 4 and will now drop out of the
top 5... Another fact is that for over a decade we haven't been competitive in the two
races that define a
top flight european club even though the promise was that by building a shiny new stadium and charging the highest gate prices in world football we would... And a million and one other facts that point
to one thing WENGER OUT
Renault has been pretty conservative
about when it expects
to return
to the
top, claiming in the past that there wouldn't be
race wins in 2018 and that being able
to challenge for championships wouldn't happen for a few years.
One of the coolest things
about the WeatherTech Sports Car Championship it that it allows us
to see
top - level prototypes and GT cars
racing around some of the awesome old - school tracks of North America.
Theo Walcott is also strongly linked with a move, with West Ham believed
to be keen, but with the
race for the
top four not yet decided, I would assume that Wenger is yet
to thing
about who will be allowed
to leave in the close - season.
In the
race the reliability of the Mugen - Honda engine Damon talked
about did get him and his Jordan
to the end of the
race (one of only nine cars
to do so), but there was no reward of points as he crossed the line in eighth place, back when only the
top six scored.
The Gunners are just
about clinging on in the
race for the
top four, and the challenge is now
to back up the win over United by winning the two difficult away games at Southampton and Stoke.
«Not
to mention the fact that over the last 16 years — between No Child Left Behind and
Race to the
Top — there has been this major change in how we talk
about and treat teachers,» Tough said.
Education Reform Now, a pro-charter school organization that is pushing
to lift the cap in hopes of improving the state's Round II application for «
Race to the
Top» funds, has a new radio ad up that darkly hints
about getting «rid» of any lawmakers who oppose reform.
New York faces a June 1 deadline for relaxing rules for charter schools
to boost its chances of winning
about half a billion dollars from the federal
Race to the
Top program.
I reached out
to Staten Island GOP chairman John Friscia, who said that there were complaints from supporters of each side
about the other, along with some other
races, and so they left the
top of the ticket blank.
Asked
about City & State «s report that a
top aide
to Ms. Meng's campaign encouraged an additional Jewish candidate
to get into the
race, Mr. Crowley said, «I have absolutely no information on that.»
Police Commissioner Bill Bratton wants presidential candidates
to talk more
about race issues, terrorism and cyber-security «instead of sabotaging each other,» the city's
top cop said on morning radio Sunday...
The council speaker, who has been locked in a tight battle for the
top slot since Weiner entered the
race, said the election has
to be
about ways
to improve the city.
His departure, however, opened an array of new questions,
about topics ranging from the fate of Schneiderman's many legal challenges
to President Donald Trump, the possibility of a criminal prosecution of Schneiderman and the
race to succeed him as the state's
top law enforcement officer.
A student advocate may, perhaps, care
about the whole child — not just
Race to the
Top $ $ $ $ $ $.
Just before Mulrow's appointment
to a
top post in Cuomo's administration, New York
Racing Association officials announced that they are re-launching formal discussions
about racetrack privatization.
Uncertainty
about district boundaries also left some
top - tier recruits hesitant
to explore or announce bids for House
races.
Dylan Ratigan, a former MSNBC host who entered the
race last week, wove comments
about the «soul of the country» into his remarks, citing his work with Helical Holdings
to help returning combat veterans — including the homeless — and how he attempted
to reconcile those efforts with his mounting displeasure with the banking industry, which he said supports concentrating wealth at the
top, not helping the country's most vulnerable citizens.
Obama lost
to Clinton in seven of the 10 states with
top Senate
races, and in
about 60 percent of the
top 27 House districts.
Hawkins» opposition
to Common Core and
Race to the
Top, as well as his platform
to fully fund schools in an equitable manner has caught the attention of teachers and parents around the state who are distressed
about the state of their schools due
to high stakes testing, unworkable and narrow standards and a lack of funding.
There are a lot of really cool things
about the ARRIS X-Speed
Racing Drone and we knew we had
to include it in our
top ten reviews.
Top Chef host and producer, award - winning author, RuPaul's Drag
Race guest judge, passionate endometriosis advocate — there's a lot
to love
about Padma Lakshmi.
Bringing an end
to one of the most wide open best picture
races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable
about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the
top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out...
He embarks on a covert operation
to smuggle toxic evidence out of the Pentagon that successive administrations — including JFK's — have suppressed the truth
about American bellicosity in Vietnam.The
race is on
to publish: the New York Times make a start, despite the efforts of the Washington Post, rambunctiously edited by Ben Bradlee (Tom Hanks)
to muscle in on their
top Nam reporter Neil Sheehan.
Bringing an end
to one of the most wide open best picture
races in years, «The Shape of Water» — a fantastical fable
about a mute woman who falls in love with an aquatic creature — claimed the
top prize Sunday night at the 90th Academy Awards, beating out a strong field of eight rivals that included box office hits such as «Dunkirk» and «Get Out» as well as smaller, more intimate fare such as «Call Me By Your Name» and «Lady Bird.»
«Our educational system is less
about having students
race to the
top and more
about going back catching those that are behind and building a pipeline
to provide all students a fair and subsequent opportunity
to learn,» he said.
Interestingly, even the average Christian schooler is not much less likely than other churchgoers
to think that a
top priority in education is teaching children
about diverse
races, religions, and cultures (67 percent versus 73 percent).
Andy Smarick talks with Education Next
about how $ 75 billion in stimulus funds have been spent
to sustain the status quo in education and whether
Race to the
Top funds will be spent differently.
The discussions
about the future of teacher evaluation and teacher tenure are going
to pick up speed all over the country and the origins are going
to turn out
to be in
Race to the
Top....
Joe Williams [JW]: It goes back
to the spring of 2009, when the stimulus package was approved and
Race to the
Top is bubbling around and nobody in New York State knew what anybody was talking
about.