Get set.....

How can you argue with better education for American students? Why would you NOT want more money invested in our education system?
Race to the Top is designed to do both of these things. They are the social needs that people have been pushing for for so long. It is a program designed to promote proactiveness in schools. I like that, why throw away money to unfruitful resources? No, make it a challenge. If you want the resources prove that you are going to put them to good use.
So let’s look at the reform ideas in Race to the Top:
1. Designing and implementing rigorous standards and high-quality assessments.
2. Attracting and keeping great teachers and leaders in America’s classrooms.
3. Supporting data systems that inform decisions and improve instruction.
4. Using innovation and effective approaches to turn-around struggling schools
5. Demonstrating and sustaining education reform.
Seems straight forward to me; the government is saying they will create and put into action tests and measurements of those tests in order to keep teachers, students and schools from slacking, instead, they will keep improving and deter them from mediocrity.