Sentences with phrase «race to the top»

The state would also be able to submit an enhanced application for the second phase of Race to the Top grants in spring of 2010.

In particular, the federal Race to the Top grant program requires that states receiving grants incorporate student assessment data into their educator evaluation process.

The deal secured nearly $ 1 billion in federal Race to the Top funds that were contingent on a statewide teacher evaluation system.

The federal government held a similar Race To The Top competition for states that began in 2010.

He joined the department in 2009, helping to write its successful application for $ 700 million in federal Race to the Top funds.

There was the fiscal «incentive» in Race to the Top for states to adopt the Common Core as evidence of their seriousness about raising academic standards.

Like previous Race to the Top applications, there are strict guidelines for those pursuing these dollars.

In fact, the Common Core isn't a national policy, though the federal Race to the Top initiative did provide encouragement and funding to states that adopted the standards.

A separate $ 350 million pool of Race to the Top money will go to help states develop common academic assessments.

Through Race to the Top funding, states attempted to highlight and bring resolution to the challenges around comprehensive and research based evaluation for teachers and administrators.

While the federal government encouraged states to adopt higher standards in 2010 with Race to the Top money, many states adopted them without incentives.

The governor's push for the bill comes as the cash - strapped state is also making a second attempt to win Race to the Top dollars.

Unfortunately, as a country, we've learned the wrong lesson from Race to the Top and teacher evaluation reforms.

High - achieving districts with reforms in place may prefer to sit it out, rather than take on extra tasks required by Race to the Top guidelines.

The rise in standards between 2013 and 2015 is not concentrated among states that received Race to the Top awards.

That's what is driving a new summer professional development program for teachers this year, funded through federal race to the top dollars.

You don't like Race to the Top or the corporate education agenda that all presidents subscribe to.

Its members include the nation's largest state, one of the first Race to the Top winners, and a number of states attempting to advance nation - leading reforms.

The changes were made in part to improve the state's chances in the federal Race to the Top education competition.

[22] In many of the federal Race to the Top reforms, for instance, principals have a good deal of discretion over evaluations.

Not all will want to be a part of Race to the Top plans.

Early drafts of Race to the Top guidelines required states to agree to implement the Common Core standards if they wanted to get the money.

However, he opposes current legislation aimed at improving the state's eligibility for up to $ 700 million in the federal Race to the Top competitive grants.

There are rumors that this was all about Race to the Top or a deal or something else.

And there's no doubt that the federal government has played a role on Common Core — via Race to the Top and via funding for the Common Core — aligned assessments.

Wondering how you can help your state get Race to the Top funds?

So, the announcement of the round one Race to the Top finalists is upon us.

That certainly goes beyond what the state had laid out for teacher evaluations in its first crack at Race to the Top money.

The article features an interactive map showing the percentage of Race to the Top policies implemented from 2001 through 2014, state by state.

This isn't a perfect solution (see Race to the Top and teacher evaluations) but it's better than the alternative.

But can we know the impact of Race to the Top after only four years?

Race to the Top encouraged states to compete for federal funding by submitting innovation proposals.

One of the tasks set forth by the original Race to the Top competition was simple design a teacher evaluation system that holds teachers accountable for their performance.

Certainly, Race to the Top put in place the incentives to make that happen.

A student advocate may, perhaps, care about the whole child — not just Race to the Top $ $ $ $ $ $.

Instead, the administration proposed 19 «priorities» that states seeking Race to the Top funds would be required to address.

Race to the Top required schools across the nation to adopt test - based evaluation and to fire educators and close schools based on test scores.

Still, most states eyeing Race to the Top money opted for the easiest route and signed onto the Common Core.

On its website, the company is marketing the system as a solution to the new mandates facing Race to the Top winners.

Race to the Top coverage Who made the final round?

Participants can enter into a lottery to run in this annual, 88 - floor race to the top, as there are only a few hundred spots.

Much more important is that Race to the Top shifted the reform movement from the right to the middle of the political spectrum.

The first rounds of Race to the Top showed true potential to fuel legislative change at the state level.

Even without Race to the Top incentives, proposals for new statewide turnaround districts continue to pop up.