Education Week – Alyson Klein
“The president actually spent little time recounting his past efforts on K-12 education reform, or his administration’s push to rewrite the No Child Left Behind Act. And, he didn’t even refer to his signature education initiative— Race to the Top—by name. He said only: “For less than 1 percent of what our nation spends on education each year, we’ve convinced nearly every state in the country to raise their standards for teaching and learning—the first time that’s happened in a generation.'”(more)