Stimulating Reform: Race to the Top, Competitive Grants and the Obama Education Agenda

Autor/in	McGuinn, Patrick
Titel	Stimulating Reform: Race to the Top, Competitive Grants and the Obama Education Agenda
Quelle	In: Educational Policy, 26 (2012) 1, S.136-159 (24 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0895-9048
DOI	10.1177/0895904811425911
Schlagwörter	Federal Legislation; Program Effectiveness; Educational Change; Incentive Grants; Educational Innovation; Program Implementation; Educational Policy; Policy Analysis; Politics of Education; Performance Factors; Barriers; Federal Programs; Federal Regulation; Federal State Relationship; Competition; Government Role; Program Design; Operations Research; Educational Philosophy; Case Studies; State Action + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bundesrecht; Bildungsreform; Finanzieller Anreiz; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Politikfeldanalyse; Educational policy; Leistungsindikator; Bundeskompetenz; Bund-Länder-Beziehung; Wettkampf; Programme design; Programmaufbau; Programmplanung; Bildungsphilosophie; Erziehungsphilosophie; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Staatliche Intervention
Abstract	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 effectively. The program has had a significant impact on the national political discourse around education and pushed many states to propose or enact important policy changes, particularly around charter schools and teacher-evaluation processes. However, we should remain realistic in our expectations about what RTTT can accomplish; although the program's approach may be different from that of earlier federal education programs, many of the political and institutional obstacles to sustaining meaningful reform at the federal and state levels remain largely the same. RTTT will struggle to surmount these obstacles in the short term, even as it hopes to transform them over the longer term. (Contains 3 notes.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10