Schools Matter: AYP is to "Continuous Improvement" As Fiat Is to Yugo

Schools Matter: AYP is to "Continuous Improvement" As Fiat Is to Yugo:

AYP is to "Continuous Improvement" As Fiat Is to Yugo

by Jim Horn

The ed industry, the Oligarchs' lawyers, and the purchased politicians of DC are at it again, staying up late at night to sew together another Frankenstein monster to unleash on America's schoolchildren, parents, and teachers. One thing all self-serving parties seem to agree on is that increasing test scores should be the central component, thus giving new life to the antiquarian idiocy that makes American schools so bad, so irrelevant, so controlled by stupidity, hubris, and arrogance.

Continuous improvement (CI) is the "new" buzz word (see TQM from 40 years ago), or buzz saw, as it