Showing posts with label race to the top. Show all posts
Showing posts with label race to the top. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Guest Commentary: Online Learning and the Winners of RTTT, Round 2

The District of Columbia and nine states--Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, and Rhode Island--were named winners of second round of Race to the Top.

The winning states will split $4.35 billion. The amounts for each state will be announced later.

Earlier this year, Tennessee and Delaware won the first round of the competition. They split $600 million.

Click here to read a full report on the round two winners.

Click here for iNACOL's analysis of the online components of RTTP Round 2 finalists applications

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Guest Commentary: Race to the Top & Online Learning

Presentations from the 19 finalists in the Race to the Top competition started this week.
If you use the first round as a gauge, Round 2 winners should be announced on Aug. 23. This is a guess.
The International Association for K-12 Learning (iNACOL) has done a great service by compiling the online learning initiatives proposed by each of the finalists. Here is a link to the iNACOL look at online learning in the applications