Yes, indeed, just as the cuckoos are parasites on other birds, the stealth assessments are parasites on real students, real education, real teachers. Same with the Common Core and the rest of the required standardized testing mantras.
If they can’t get achieve their goals one way, they will use another.
And make no mistake about it, their goals are not to improve education for all children. Their goals are to enrich EduBusiness and produce unquestioning, compliant cogs in the corporate machine.
Cuckoo!
Cuckoo!
Such is the incessant cry of the hour from one of the most popular souvenirs of the black forest of Germany – the cuckoo clock.
Time is demarcated by the chirp of an 18th century animatronic bird jumping forward, moving a wing or even opening its beak before making its distinctive cry.
However, in nature the cuckoo has a more sinister reputation.
It’s one of the most common brood parasites.
Instead of investing all the time and energy necessary to raise its own young, many varieties of cuckoo sneak their eggs into the nests of other birds. When the baby cuckoos hatch, they demand an increasing amount of their clueless foster parents’ care often resulting in neglect of the birds’ own children.
Parental care is co-opted. The love and affection natural to raise parent birds’ own children are diverted to another source. And the more…
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