If you think so-called winning states can spend their Race to the Top grant money on teacher salaries or structural deficits, you’re under a drunken delusion says School Tech Connect. The money goes to data collection. Did Obama mention that in his speech to the Urban League? Don’t think so.
In the NY Daily News, Diane Ravitch says that when the NY scores were released there was a sound of bursting bubbles across the state. A miracle turned into a mirage.
Since the NY Times labeled the NEA as “the more retrograde of teacher unions” (shades of Bush’s EdSec, Rod Paige), Twitter and Facebook have been flooded with “I’m a proud member of the NEA,” statements. And more than a few AFT members have posted of that they’re suffering from retrograde envy.
Some liberals are confused by the fact that Obama praised Race to the Top to the skies at the Urban League meeting, but a Democratic Congress is cutting funding for the stupid project. Open Left explains.
Of course he defends RTTT even though its main tenets are not backed up by any evidence, as FEA, the civil rights groups and the community groups all point out. He simply asserts that because states are doing (were stampeded/bribed into doing) what Duncan wanted, they are automatically improving. Who needs evidence? Monty Neill
Fred Klonsky 