competing «priorities»; and being asked to resolve seemingly contradictory dictates — such as RTT's twin mandates that winners demonstrate buy - in from teacher unions and that they also
present bold reform plans unlikely to earn such support.
Not exact matches
And the
present decade opened with the Race to the Top, the brainchild of U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, based on the
bold hypothesis that sizable grants of federal dollars, disbursed via a competitive process, can induce states to jump through
reform policy hoops that they likely would not otherwise have attempted.
With Gallup data showing 72 percent of the U.S. public having «trust and confidence» in its teachers,
bold leaders from the classroom may
present an «inconvenient truth» to school reformers and their more restrictive
reform agendas.