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A Look at Race to the Top | Seattle Education

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A Look at Race to the Top

The “scientific evidence or research for the four interventions proposed for school improvement grants is, at best, sketchy. …. If we are going to mandate interventions from the federal level we need to be clear about why we are mandating such reforms and what evidence we have for our actions. Otherwise I worry that we are not learning from NCLB and are just repeating our mistakes.”

Sen. Michael B. Enzi of Wyoming

Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee

Education Week, May 21, 2010

Someone in our listening audience last night during the Parents Across America conference call asked a