Why Racing to the Top....

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Hello everyone this is Hassan blogging, and let me say first I never blog before so
this is experience for me. To start with our topic for this is Racing to the Top Funding, we selected this topic because we felt it was a issue that we related to and it affects us as students. So I wanted to write and tell my blogger little about what Racing to the Top fund is and why it is important that people understand about this issue. My opinion of why racing to the top is important is that racing to the Top brings ideas of how to improve education in American and I am big believer of having higher education. I think Racing to the Top gives schools a chance to show that they do care and are willing create change if it means having student improve education and able to compete again third world countries. This government funding is design for states to compete against each other because the funding is limited. The top seven states that show promising reform in their school system will receive the funding; also this funding has two rounds. Those states who applied and did not get to participate in the first round will get a second chance in the second round to participate in the Racing to the Top Fund. Being a American student I think it’s sad to see American education below other countries that we should not be for example I read research that was done by PISA within 32 countries the research was base on three areas such Mathematic, sciences, reading. The research involves testing students that are 15 years of age in three subjects: Mathematics, Science and Reading. The PISA research included 30 countries including United States, Canada, Mexico, and Spain. All these countries, besides Mexico, were shown to be outperforming American students. After reading and understanding that results from the research I start to think it’s time for America to challenge their education system and create something that will increase the education level, but in this blog I want to hear what others think of and how can this problem be fixed?
My group members and I were interesting finding out what others thoughts were on this issue and if this step is a step toward new form of American education. Do you guys think it’s great idea that the government decided to spend $4.35 billion on idea like this (Racing to the Top)?