brookings institute

A recent New York Times editorial points out that Race to the Top—U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan’s $4.3 billion tool for reform—has failed to address one key reform area:  a longstanding practice of allowing school districts to shunt inexperienced, unqualified teachers to low-income schools in lieu of firing them.

Move over, Iowa. Colorado and its southern Intermountain West neighbors now comprise the “New American Heartland.” That’s according to the Brookings Institute, which argues the most interesting changes in the country are taking place in the Intermountain West right now.