So how about we don't let a top 4 push end of season gloss over the fact we haven't been in the title
race and were embarrassed in the CL this year — the two
competitions that
effectively size up where you stand in European and English football.
The federal
Race to the Top grant
competition tried to stimulate
competition among state departments of education to evaluate teachers and commit their state to participate in statewide tests (based on Common Core's inferior standards), as if teachers, in general, were the problem, and as if these state departments of education, in general, were staffed by people who had
effectively addressed low achievement.