Stimulating Reform
@article{McGuinn2012StimulatingR, title={Stimulating Reform}, author={Patrick McGuinn}, journal={Educational Policy}, year={2012}, volume={26}, pages={136 - 159} }
This article offers an analysis of the origins, evolution, and impact of the Obama administration’s Race to the Top (RTTT) competitive grant program and places it in the broader context of the debate over the No Child Left Behind Act and the shifting intergovernmental relations around education. RTTT is fundamentally about two things: creating political cover for state education reformers to innovate and helping states construct the administrative capacity to implement these innovations…
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