Mr Obama makes top-down cuts, while testing new ways to deliver and pay for care.

ECONOMIST: Medicare reform

Right now high-stakes testing and crude top-down thinking is hampering both the public schools and the charter school movement.

FORBES: High-Stakes Testing, Choice, and Bottom-up Education

When it comes to the modern education reform movement, I am much more concerned with the testing regime and the top-down approach of many school reformers than I am with the idea of school choice.

FORBES: School Choice vs. High-Stakes-Testing