New at Reason: Steve Chapman on Obama's Misguided Education Policy

March 22, 2010

President Obama's "Race to the Top" plan is a new approach in education, offering competitive grants to states that adopt high standards, improve lousy schools, and reward good teachers. But as Steve Chapman writes, it rests on the assumption that the federal government not only knows how to raise student performance but has the tools to induce states and local school districts to make the changes required to help the students in need. Experience indicates that all those premises are wrong.

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