id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt WOS-000313356900008 McGuinn, P Stimulating Reform: Race to the Top, Competitive Grants and the Obama Education Agenda 2012 .txt text/plain 179 5 30 The program has had a significant impact on the national political discourse around education and pushed many states to propose or enact important policy changes, particularly around charter schools and teacher-evaluation processes. RTTT is fundamentally about two things: creating political cover for state education reformers to innovate and helping states construct the administrative capacity to implement these innovations effectively. cache/WOS-000313356900008.txt txt/WOS-000313356900008.txt