Creating Cover and Constructing Capacity: Assessing the Origins, Evolution, and Impact of Race to the Top. Education Stimulus Watch. Special Report 6

Autor/in	McGuinn, Patrick
Institution	American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Titel	Creating Cover and Constructing Capacity: Assessing the Origins, Evolution, and Impact of Race to the Top. Education Stimulus Watch. Special Report 6
Quelle	(2010), (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Federal Legislation; Federal Programs; Incentive Grants; Competition; Best Practices; Program Effectiveness; Educational Change; Educational Policy; School Restructuring; Educational Improvement; Goal Orientation; State Government; Politics of Education; Information Dissemination; Guidelines; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesrecht; Finanzieller Anreiz; Wettkampf; Bildungsreform; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Bund-Länder-Beziehung; Educational policy; Informationsverbreitung; Richtlinien; USA
Abstract	The Obama administration's Race to the Top (RTT) competitive grant program has been heralded for revolutionizing the federal role in education and transforming state school reform efforts. This paper offers an initial analysis of the origins, evolution, and impact of RTT. In many ways, RTT is an attempt to circumvent the perceived failings of No Child Left Behind and in particular the law's reliance on coercive federal mandates and the compliance culture it fostered at the state level. RTT's competitive grant process relies on incentives instead of sanctions to drive state reform. The program 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 effectively. (Contains 79 notes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2021/2/06