(This guest blog was written by Scott Joftus, co-founder and president of Cross & Joftus, an education consulting firm based in Bethesda, MD. He can be reached at scott@edstrategies.net.) “People who drive faster than me are jerks. People who drive…
Tag Archives: RTT
An RTT Cookbook With One Recipe
December 16, 2011 – 8:00 am
I am ambivalent. My state, Tennessee, is the first state that has implemented the annual teacher and principal evaluations as required by Race to the Top (RTT). In 2010, I was involved with writing Tennessee’s successful RTT application, especially the…
Waiting for (Go)Dough
December 13, 2011 – 4:25 pm
In the absence of a reauthorized Elementary and Secondary Education Act, much of the Obama administration’s agenda for K-12 education has rested on two grant programs first funded under the 2009 American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the “stimulus bill”): the…
Bridging the Gap Between Policy and Parents
September 6, 2011 – 8:00 am
August 11 was the first day of school in Nashville. I spent the morning at one of our district’s middle schools that has been identified as in “restructuring” under No Child Left Behind. Students in their new school clothes streamed…
GAO Issues S.O.S. on RTT
July 15, 2011 – 11:24 am
The Government Accountability Office recently released a report looking into the progress made by Race to the Top states (RTT). From this vantage point, it comes as no surprise that there are difficulties. Almost all the states face implementation delays….
ED Expands RTT to Include Early Learning Initiative
May 25, 2011 – 2:35 pm
The U.S. Department of Education (ED), in partnership with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), announced today it was expanding President Obama’s signature initiative — the Race to the Top program — to include a $500 million…