Everything's Connected, and it Ain't Lookin' Good
Let's not forget the reason Scantron is so interested in catapulting the propaganda around charter schools. Scantron exists to make money for the shareholders of M & F Worldwide, including its celebrity magnate-principal, Ron Perelman, who was so famously cheap to Ellen Barkin, if you recall. But that's a sidebar.
Scantron's interest is in selling as many bubble sheets possible, along with the attendant bubble sheet scanners, as well as an entire line of reducible-to-bubbles products, including school tests, including the eponymous Scantron Test. I have written about my love of the Scantron Test before, and how at least it's honestly named: it's a test that exists to prop up the company that makes the bubble sheets on which the test is printed. The data the Scantron Test generates is folded into a narrative designed to set urban brown and black people against poorer urban brown and black people and thereby.... you got it, create more tests.
Howe does it work?
Well, Scantron didn't just fall off the turnip wagon. They know that in an America populated with charter schools,
Scantron's interest is in selling as many bubble sheets possible, along with the attendant bubble sheet scanners, as well as an entire line of reducible-to-bubbles products, including school tests, including the eponymous Scantron Test. I have written about my love of the Scantron Test before, and how at least it's honestly named: it's a test that exists to prop up the company that makes the bubble sheets on which the test is printed. The data the Scantron Test generates is folded into a narrative designed to set urban brown and black people against poorer urban brown and black people and thereby.... you got it, create more tests.
Howe does it work?
Well, Scantron didn't just fall off the turnip wagon. They know that in an America populated with charter schools,
