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U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced today that 10 applicants have won grants in the second phase of the Race to the Top competition . . .

…Over the course of the Race to the Top competition, 35 states and the District of Columbia have adopted rigorous common, college - and career-ready standards in reading and math, and 34 states have changed laws or policies to improve education.

Every state that applied has already done the hard work of collaboratively creating a comprehensive education reform agenda. In the coming months, the Department plans to bring all States together to help ensure the success of their work implementing reforms around college- and career-ready standards, data systems, great teachers and leaders, and school turnarounds.

In addition to the reforms supported by Race to the Top, the Department has made unprecedented resources available through reform programs like the Investing in Innovation Fund, the Teacher Incentive Fund, and the School Improvement Grants under Title I.

Through all of these programs, the Department of Education will be distributing almost $10 billion to support reform in states and local…

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Md. wins second round `Race to the Top` grant

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It’s a repository. It’s a community

…Not only can free, online, open-sourced curriculum and books make education more affordable and widespread - it also can make it fun.
So says Scott McNealy, whom you may be more familiar with from his time leading Sun Microsystems. He spends time these days proslytizing for his labor of love, Curriki, a nonprofit repository/community/social network that seeks to gather the best educational materials in one spot for educators, parents and students to use.
We chatted yesterday for about half an hour about how Curriki got started and what’s next. And we couldn’t let the opportunity go by without asking a question or two about Oracle v Google, either. Special bonus: You get to find out what kind of computers and smartphones you can find in the McNealy home.
Here’s the full chat. You can also access it by clicking here.
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Bringing the open source model to education

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