from the Reformish Lexicon
The idle Fool
Is whipt at school.
–from the first textbook published in the Americas, The New England Primer; motto of the Reformish movement in K-12 Education (“Back to the future. I mean way, way back.”)
Work on the Reformish (or Rheeformish) Lexicon is proceeding apace thanks to the intrepid work of a great many researchers into this dialect of the Goblish language, spoken by Education Deformers. This Lexicon would have been impossible, of course, without the Reformish Corpus assembled by the fearless members of the Counter Rheeformation who have braved Education Deform venues across the country, including data chats and investor conferences (coven meetings) to compile it. Many thanks, as well, to our scholars of the Reformish scriptures: The Nation at Risk Report, The Bell Curve, and the Common Core State Standards. Special thanks to philologist Don Duane Swacker, Hidalgo, for his discovery of the hidden meaning of P.A.R.C.C., which, of course, is spelled backward, in keeping with the Goblish grimoires of antiquity. Thanks, as well, to Ken Watanabe, who