Sunday, October 23, 2011
Rachel Claussen/The Defects of the Race to the Top Program
In “One simple solution for our schools? A captivating promise, but a false one.” (March 14, 2010) Diane Ratvich, a historian of education, insists that the Race to the Top program imposed by the Obama administration will cause public education to take a turn for the worst. Ratvich supports her position against this program by listing all the terrible consequences that will occur as a result, such as having teachers be solely responsible for their students’ test scores. She attempts to warn others against the Race to the Top program so that less harm will be inflicted on an already troubled education system in America. The author presents her unyielding view on this “deeply flawed” (page 1) program LA times readers in the hope that enough people will side with her and bring an end to its possible destruction of public education.
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I agree with the author that there are many flaws in the Race to the Top program including the fact that teachers' salaries will be determined by their students' test scores. I believe that this is an inaccurate assessment of a teacher's ability to teach since there are those who don't try in school and those who don't test well. Also, I agreed with Ratvich that if charter and public schools compete then public education would become worse over time since they would be filled with all the students rejected by charter schools.
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