Eliza Browning
AC360° Associate Producer

The federal stimulus set aside $4 billion for education and last week the Obama Administration announced a new strategy for how schools around the country will receive part of the money. It’s called a ‘Race to the Top’ competition where school systems compete to claim a share of the $4 billion. Who determines how the money will be doled out? Is this the reform American schoolchildren need? We’ll talk to Education Secretary Arne Duncan tonight.

Meanwhile, a federal study shows that nearly one-third of states lowered their academic proficiency standards in recent years – a move that helps schools stay immune from sanctions under the No Child Left Behind law. But lowering standards also confuses parents about how childrens' achievement compares with students in other states and countries. The Department of Education study found that 15 states lowered their proficiency standards at the middle school level in basic subjects from 2005 to 2007. Three states in particular – Maine, Oklahoma and Wyoming – lowered standards in both math and reading at the fourth and eighth grade levels. Were schools allowed to lower standards? And why? Randi Kaye is Keeping them Honest tonight.

It’s a busy week for Sarah Palin in the media. Her book officially releases tomorrow and her publicity tour kicks off later this week in Grand Rapids, MI. Today, her interview with Oprah will air. Many people have been waiting in anticipation for this interview, but will it live up to the hype? Candy Crowley reports on how Palin is “Going Rogue.”

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised to send a health care bill to the Senate floor this week. Right now he’s waiting on numbers from the Congressional Budget Office. Meanwhile, abortion still remains an issue that could block the bill and today interfaith abortion rights groups are weighing in. Heads of Catholic, Protestant, Jewish and First Amendment organizations will hold a news conference today to urge lawmakers that abortion coverage language be included in the health care bill. Jeffrey Toobin will be on to talk about how abortion could affect the health care debate.

We’re nearing the one-year anniversary of the Mumbai attacks in India. On the evening of November 26, 2008, 10 young Pakistani men reached Mumbai, India in a small hijacked fishing boat, having slaughtered its captain and crew, and arrived unnoticed into busy port city. Over the next three days, armed with cell phones, machine guns and fruits and nuts for sustenance, the men unleashed coordinated attacks across Mumbai that left at least 170 people dead and more than 300 people wounded. Fareed Zakaria, host of CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS and Newsweek's International editor, narrates the powerful documentary, ‘Terror in Mumbai,’ and recounts the events of those three days that sent shockwaves of fear around the world. We’ll show parts of this documentary tonight and we’ll talk to Fareed about the impact of the attacks almost one year later.

The decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks, and four other suspects to a New York courtroom, rather than a military tribunal, raised a great deal of controversy across the political spectrum. Today, federal officials are expected to inspect a prison about 150 miles west of Chicago where Guantanamo Bay detainees could be transferred. Illinois is being considered along with two other cities in Colorado in Montana. The possible transfer of detainees has also sparked outrage. What do you think?

And President Obama is meeting with Chinese President Hu Jintao in Beijing today. At a town hall with students he stressed the importance of freedom of expression, access to information and human rights. What message is Obama sending on his Asian trip and are you following it closely?

What else are you following? Let us know and see you tonight at 10 p.m. ET.