Andy Smarick and Frederick M. Hess respond to the first round Race to the Top announcement by the Department of Education.

In his latest AEI Education Stimulus Watch report, former deputy assistant secretary of education Andy Smarick notes that Race to the Top's success is premature and drastically inflated.

At this AEI event, scholars will discuss what to make of the administration's current agenda and what to expect in the future.

The second report of the AEI Education Stimulus Watch (ESW) series examines whether the stimulus's unparalleled federal investment in schooling is yielding innovation and improvement or merely subsidizing the status quo.

Over the next two years, the federal government, through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), will spend an unprecedented amount on education.

Declarations of the Race to the Top's revolutionary impact are both premature and drastically inflated.

Through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the federal government will spend an unprecedented amount of money on education--nearly $100 billion. Will this money lead to meaningful reform of our K-12 public education system?

This second Education Stimulus Watch reports on the key education portions of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act by tracking their contributions to the legislation's three points of leverage for reform.