James Crawford: Letter to Sec Ed Arne Duncan

[Francis Hult]

ELL Advocates

 

Letter to Secretary of Education Arne Duncan from James Crawford...

 

August 19, 2009 

 

The Honorable Arne Duncan 

U.S. Secretary of Education 

Washington, DC 

 

Dear Secretary Duncan, 

 

The $4.35 billion Race to the Top Fund presents you with a unique opportunity. By using this program to reward boldness and creativity, you could support a wide range of projects to expand the knowledge base about teaching and learning, fostering valuable innovations in our nation's schools. 

 

Unfortunately, your proposed priorities for Race to the Top would squander that opportunity by restricting federal funding to a set of preconceived notions about "reform," which may be ideologically fashionable but are largely unsupported by scientific research.

 

Full text:

http://www.elladvocates.org/documents/federal/ILEP%20comments%20on%20Race%20to%20the%20Top.pdf

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