"Despite the administration's preference for "evidence-based" measures, however, ideology and favoritism rather than sound research appear to be the primary rationales for the policy direction it has prescribed.
This disconnect between the realities of public schools and the policy prescriptions coming from Washington is the crux of the problem. The policy wonks guiding the administration seem to think that the only thing wrong with No Child Left Behind—the law adopted by the Bush administration to guide education policy—is that the slogan got a bad name because it promised far more than it could deliver. Instead of developing a new strategy, they've merely devised a new slogan, Race to the Top, without really understanding what it might take to move the nation's schools forward."
http://www.thenation.com/article/154599/schools-vs-slogans
This disconnect between the realities of public schools and the policy prescriptions coming from Washington is the crux of the problem. The policy wonks guiding the administration seem to think that the only thing wrong with No Child Left Behind—the law adopted by the Bush administration to guide education policy—is that the slogan got a bad name because it promised far more than it could deliver. Instead of developing a new strategy, they've merely devised a new slogan, Race to the Top, without really understanding what it might take to move the nation's schools forward."
http://www.thenation.com/article/154599/schools-vs-slogans
