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Best and worst in 2010: Get ye to the polls!

Peter Meyer
12.20.2010

The Education Next polls are still open.? You get to choose from a list of key education events chosen by Hoover's Koret Task force. (See here.) ??Is Race to the Top the best or the worst?? How about those movies?? Michelle Rhee?

I'm not sure how scientific this all is. but it's fun; especially because, this being the Internet Age, your votes are tallied instantly.

?Peter Meyer, Bernard Lee Schwartz Policy Fellow

Tags: Michelle Rhee

Peter Meyer is an adjunct fellow with the Thomas B. Fordham Institute. Meyer is also a former News Editor of Life magazine and the author of numerous nonfiction books, including the critically acclaimed The Yale Murder (Empire Books, 1982; Berkley Books, 1983) and Death of Innocence (G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1985; Berkley Books, 1986). Over the course of his three-decade journalism career Meyer, who…

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