Race to the Top Competition Changes State Education Policies

Education Next: With Race to the Top (RttT), the Obama administration sought to stimulate education reform among the states. Five years have passed since the final winners in the $4 billion contest were announced, so there has been enough time to assess whether the program encouraged meaningful education reform or promised a lot but changed little. Now University of Chicago presidential scholar, William Howell, analyzes the effects of RttT in a new research article for Education Next.

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