Tennessee, the Oligarchs' Poster State for Corporate Education Reform
Mr. Superlative, Arne Duncan, announced last week that Tennessee will likely be the first state granted a royal waiver from the child and school crushing NCLB testing targets that guarantee an 80-90 percent failure rate in most school communities across America by 2014. I was in Tennessee at the time recovering from foot surgery when a friend there called with the news. Having just that day been working on a book project that extends a case study of Tennessee’s valueless value-added testing scheme devised by the Dr. Strangelove/Wizard of Oz of testing, Bill Sanders, the irony was just too sweet.
Tennessee could not be better positioned to become the poster state for embracing Duncan’s federalized
