The Perils of Obsessive Management
is the title of a very interesting post from England by David Boyle that has made the rounds (partly with my assistance) of some education lists and sites.
After all, one of the real problems in education is our national obsession with measuring, as if weighing a pig 5 times a day would actually increase its weight.
Let me offer two "rules" from the piece and then discuss the implications:
Goodhart’s Law (after former Bank of England director Charles Goodhart) which says that: any
