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Sawchuk, Stephen; Maxwell, Lesli A. – Education Week, 2010
As peer reviewers for the U.S. Department of Education begin to comb through the thousands of pages of applications for $4 billion in federal Race to the Top Fund grants, they'll be under pressure to determine which are most worthy of funding: those that promise the most, or those with the best chance of delivering. In a competition whose criteria…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Academic Achievement, Competition, Educational Change
Lubienski, Christopher – Education and the Public Interest Center, 2008
A Friedman Foundation report attempts to find empirical support for the contention that competition from private schools, through voucher programs, improves the effectiveness of public schools. In the first year of Ohio's new EdChoice voucher program, the report claims to have found substantial academic gains at public schools exposed to the…
Descriptors: Achievement Gap, Public Schools, Private Schools, School Choice