Today, Steven Brill offers his own analysis of how Race to the Top applications were judged, and it isn't pretty. (He wrote about RTTT for The New York Times Magazine, but delves into the administration of the contest in the piece for Education Week.)

Brill, also author of the piece in the New Yorker about teachers killing time as they awaited their fate,  analyzed judges scoring sheets and written comments to draw some conclusions.

He doesn't mince words.

"A review of the vetters’ score sheets and written comments juxtaposed against the applications they judged suggests that their standards were inconsistent, that some were naive about the difference between promises and the capacity to deliver, and that others fell victim to the propensity of many states to misstate the status of their programs and overstate the buy-in they had from key stakeholders, especially the teachers’ unions," Brill writes.

We've already noted that other groups had their own questions about the process. What do you make of all of this? Round 2 applications are due in less than two weeks...