Delaware Pushes to meet race to top promises

It is amazing what teachers are being put through. Now they have to experiment with different test models to see which are most effective. Unfortunately, what teacher has the time to approach this from a scientific perspective. There is a data coach as she is called or the person who is supposed  to help them comb over all the testing information they have been acquiring in their professional development meetings, but how much can they really due. This is the federal governments race to the top program funding. Well... the Delaware department of education claims the to do list is long and that they are methodically going through it. If this is just one of the necessary objectives then the project is doomed. How much can they really learn from these testing experiments in one year? Possibly a great deal for statisticians and evaluators in the future or over the next few years which may have been the objective all along but I doubt it because I do not think this program had that much for-sight. It feels like a political quick fix.