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McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2009
The U.S. Department of Education's proposed guidelines for awarding $4 billion in Race to the Top Fund money send a strong message that any state hoping to land a competitive grant should expect to allow student test scores to be used in decisions about teacher compensation and evaluation. The draft plans outlined by department officials last…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Guidelines, Politics of Education, Evaluation Criteria
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2009
Federal education officials last week pledged that the economic-stimulus program's $650 million innovation fund will reserve the largest grants for schools, districts, and nonprofit organizations that want to finance programs with proven track records and are ready to grow. In the U.S. Department of Education's first substantial preview of the…
Descriptors: Grants, Educational Innovation, Pilot Projects, Improvement Programs
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2009
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan said that he plans to demand radical steps--such as firing most of a school's staff or converting it to a charter school--as the price of admission in directing $3.5 billion in new school improvement aid to the nation's 5,000 worst-performing schools. In sharp contrast to the current free-flowing nature of…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Grants, Federal Regulation, Eligibility
McNeil, Michele – Education Week, 2007
This article describes how a 169-page report "Tough Choices or Tough Times" by the New Commission on the Skills of the American Workforce affect the educational and economic stability of the United States. The report says, that the United States is losing ground in the global economy because the nation's education system is failing at…
Descriptors: Global Approach, Public Education, Living Standards, Educational Improvement