Comments on: Why MA finished 13th of 16 on the Race to the Top http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/blog/education/why-ma-finished-13th-of-16-on-the-race-to-the-top/ Public Policy Research Mon, 30 Jan 2012 21:19:06 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: charles hewitt http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/blog/education/why-ma-finished-13th-of-16-on-the-race-to-the-top/comment-page-1/#comment-4709 charles hewitt Thu, 06 May 2010 12:31:28 +0000 http://www.pioneerinstitute.org/blog/?p=2125#comment-4709 very straightforward analysis. why cant this clarity be communicated widely? We can debate the reasons for the application generating these results but we need to disseminate the results to focus such debate. the piiecemeal approach so far ends up with a lot of anecdotal debate which is long on rhetoric and short on actionable specifics. Were there any areas where Mass did very well on the evaluation? what were the total number of points gained by each state included? how did those other states that pioneer has been looking at as valuable models to work with do? is the competition over or is there a second chance chance for application? what steps are being taken by the state , the governor, the legislature, the unions to address each of these points? none of them involve heavy lifting and, as jim suggests, could be addressed very quickly(which is why it would be interesting to see how mass graded out on the entire application which, one would hope, contained some of these more substantive and difficult to attain result measures) very straightforward analysis. why cant this clarity be communicated widely?
We can debate the reasons for the application generating these results but we need to disseminate the results to focus such debate.

the piiecemeal approach so far ends up with a lot of anecdotal debate which is long on rhetoric and short on actionable specifics.

Were there any areas where Mass did very well on the evaluation? what were the total number of points gained by each state included?
how did those other states that pioneer has been looking at as valuable models to work with do?

is the competition over or is there a second chance chance for application? what steps are being taken by the state , the governor, the legislature, the unions to address each of these points? none of them involve heavy lifting and, as jim suggests, could be addressed very quickly(which is why it would be interesting to see how mass graded out on the entire application which, one would hope, contained some of these more substantive and difficult to attain result measures)

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