When ‘Grading’ Is Degrading
Bee Things
By MICHAEL BRICK
Published: November 22, 2012
Austin, Tex.
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Times Topic: Education
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IN his speech on the night of his re-election, President Obama promised to find common ground with opposition leaders in Congress. Yet when it comes to education reform, it’s the common ground between Democrats and Republicans that has been the problem.
For the past three decades, one administration after another has sought to fix America’s troubled schools by making them compete with one another. Mr. Obama has put up billions of dollars for his Race to the Top program, a federal sweepstakes where state