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...that sum, $9,000 is a one-time grant that will go towards the purchase of new video equipment, which will be shared among all the shows...
...their academic achievement." Mapp is currently helping write a case study on Miami's Parent Academy program, which is one of the nation's most successful big-city attempts in this area. Privately funded by local philanthropists (it is in the midst of a three-year, $18 million grant from the Knight Foundation) and businesses, the Parent Academy has seen more than 120,000 people participate in its workshops during the past half-decade. It has taught parents everything from how to reinforce reading lessons at home to how to deal with bullying and the perils of sexting...
States that apply for grant money must demonstrate a will, capacity, and plan to create legal, regulatory, and technological conditions that foster reform in line with the president’s vision for public education...
...president is also encouraging states to make establishing more publicly funded, non-unionized charter schools a priority in their grant applications. While not all charter schools have proven themselves better than traditional public schools, they are the laboratories in which to test innovative new models of education. Extensive experimentation is impossible in traditional public schools and is vital to solving the nation’s education woes. Race to the Top promises to forge an environment that will nourish and support the best of the charter schools rather than allow unions to stifle them...
Already in Wisconsin, the prospect of grant money has unions agreeing to allow standardized testing to be a factor in teacher evaluation so long as it is not used as grounds for firing. While this may lead to bad teachers simply cycling through the worst schools, this compromise is leagues better than the stagnation so characteristic of public-school policy. It is an encouraging sign that Race to the Top is already working before even a single dollar has been spent...