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Topic: Race to the Top

(AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

Ryan Bohl - American Politics Made Super
George W. Bush, Bill Gates, Arne Duncan (AP/Charles Dharapak/Ted S. Warren/Andrew Harnik)

This is not how we fix schools

Nikhil Goyal
(AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Jeff Chiu/Mary Altaffer)

Duncan's Race to the Bottom

Diane Ravitch
(Reuters/Jonathan Ernst/<a href='https://secure.istockphoto.com/profile/bluestocking'>bluestocking</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>/Salon)

Obama's stunning test reversal

David Dayen
(AP/Jacquelyn Martin/Jeff Chiu/Mary Altaffer)

Take it to Rhee and Gates

Diane Ravitch
(AP/Reuters/Larry Downing/Dominick Reuter/Skip Peterson)

We must despise our kids

David Dayen
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/profile/maica'>Maica</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

The cold reality of "opt out"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(<a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/profile/mygueart'>mygueart</a> via <a href='http://www.istockphoto.com/'>iStock</a>)

"This victory belongs to us"

Sarah Jaffe
Michelle Rhee, Elizabeth Warren (AP/Jeff Chiu/Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)

Education "reformers'" big lie

Jeff Bryant
Diane Ravitch (Paul Wolfe)

Ravitch: How to fix schools!

Sara Scribner
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-540784p1.html'>Lightspring</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>/Salon)

School privatization is a hoax

Diane Ravitch
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-456880p1.html'>Constantine Pankin</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Mary Elizabeth Williams
(AP/Carolyn Kaster/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

Please junk Race to the Top

Rob Delaney