Reading List: Best Edu-Candidate Name Ever
The Friday Reading list is really best enjoyed on Monday afternoon.
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*So whatever happened to all that great, unprecedented technical support that states were supposed to get from the U.S. Department of Education for the $4 billion Race to the Top competition? Well, it looks like ICF Incorporated, a Virginia based firm, got more than $42 million in federal funding to help out with that. (Here's a department of education notice about one $38 million grant. Plus, ICF got an additional nearly $5 million on top of that, also for Race to the Top technical assistance.)
Over $40 million in technical assistance money is nothing to sneeze at, remember states winning an actual RTT