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Includes articles analyzing how Title 1 school improvement grant money is being used, information about the Department of Education's new data site, the questionable future of RTTT winning states, and more!
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To help address lack of parental involvement in many U.S. schools, Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recently recommended doubling the amount of federal Title I funds to support parent involvement. However, at least one district isn’t waiting, and has already tapped into its stimulus dollars to address this need.
While a vast majority of the $98 billion set aside for education under the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act was directed toward elementary and secondary education, significant funds were also focused on higher education.
Tennessee, one of the first two Race to the Top (RTTT) recipient states, understands it will take the ongoing commitment of the business community for its reform efforts to succeed, according to Johnson City Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Gary Mabry.
Includes a case study on Tennessee's RTTT performance, an update on ARRA programs, and articles on higher education, parental involvement, and more!
With winners having been recently named for Race to the Top: Phase II, the Race to the Top: Assessment Program, Investing in Innovation (i3), and Teacher Incentive Fund (TIF) grant programs, many states will be seeing a significant influx of funding for education reform projects in the near future.
Ever since the US Department of Education announced the winners of the Investing in Innovation (I3) competition, critics have asked whether the awardees are innovative enough. The question itself is part of what has become a vicious cycle in education: What’s new? What’s next? What’s the silver bullet?
Seven hundred million dollars sounds like a lot of money, but sixty thousand dollars a year – the annual Race to the Top allocation for one Florida school district – doesn’t, especially when you consider the amount of change that the US Department of Education is expecting across the four assurance areas in return.
