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Topic: Race to the Top

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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
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Obama's stunning test reversal

David Dayen
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(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
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The cold reality of "opt out"

Mary Elizabeth Williams
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"This victory belongs to us"

Sarah Jaffe
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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
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(AP/Carolyn Kaster/Salon/Benjamin Wheelock)

Please junk Race to the Top

Rob Delaney
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