Americans are learning hard lessons about the value of their work in a race-to-the-bottom global economy.

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And for less than 1 percent of what America spends on education each year, Race to the Top has led over 40 states to raise their standards for teaching and learning -- standards, by the way, that were developed not in Washington but by Republican and Democratic governors all across the country.

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