Dolan, Deirdre, and Tess Stovall.
"Ramping Up Race to the Top." Third Way Fresh Thinking. N.p., March
2011. Web. 27 Feb 2012. <http://content.thirdway.org/publications/379/Third_Way
_Idea_Brief__ Ramping_Up_Race_to_the_Top.pdf>.
Dolan and Stovall, policy advisors at a progressive
movement organization take the education reform initiative of President Obama’s
administration, Race to the Top (RTTT) and compare it to that of former President
Bush’s No Child Left Behind (NCLB). There is a clear admiration and approval of
RTTT in this article that stems from its focus on success to that of failure, a
side effect that became apparent of the NCLB policy. The article has a clear
format first describing the initiative itself along with the impacts of the
program then proceeds to address and refute select criticisms and concludes
with support for the continuation of the program. The article draws support
from the National Center for education Statistics and the opinions of education
periodicals. I found the article to be informative for an audience unfamiliar
with reform policy but rather simple in its language and execution. It serves well
as an initial overview of a much deeper subject.
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