Race to the Top

    Education: Just Throw More Money At It!

    By: Breeanne Howe (Diary)  |  October 25th at 04:08 PM  | 

    Education: Just Throw More Money At It!

    In the last Presidential debate, slated to be a foreign policy debate, President Obama made numerous attempts to shift the focus to education.  Yet, his record on education hasn’t improved the situation, and the policies he has quietly put in place only add more to the debt the nation’s children will have to pay. The controversial No Child Left Behind education law has been completely | Read More »

    Education Reform and New Jersey

    By: Ben Domenech (Diary)  |  August 27th at 01:19 PM  | 

    I’ve said that Chris Christie losing out on $400 million over four years in federal grant money on Education could be a blessing in disguise–and I wanted to explain why that is. So this week Education Secretary Arne Duncan announced $3.4 billion split between ten “winners” under their Race to the Top program, with the overwhelming bulk of the remaining pool of money (yes, that’s | Read More »