The New York Times Magazine runs an excellent piece on ‘Race to the Top’ and the push for education reform. Here is an excerpt from the article:

The winners of the Race would be those states that submitted the best blueprints for fulfilling the reform agenda, which includes allowing school districts to take over failing schools, improving curriculum standards and encouraging school innovation (which means, in part, allowing charter schools to flourish). But what the reformers have come to believe matters most is good teachers.

You can read the complete article here.