Research does not support any part of Race to the Top

The foundations demand that public schools and teachers be held accountable for performance, but they themselves are accountable to no one. If their plans fail, no sanctions are levied against them. They are bastions of unaccountability.

When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school.

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.

If charter schools are not more successful on average than the public schools they replace, what is accomplished by demolishing public education? What is the rationale for authorizing for-profit charters or charter management organizations with high-paid executives, since their profits and high salaries are paid by taxpayers' dollars?

Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?