Russ on Reading: The Education Reformer Field Test: New from BARCC

Russ on Reading: The Education Reformer Field Test: New from BARCC:

The Education Reformer Field Test: New from BARCC

Across the nation this past week students took a field test of the new PARCC standardized tests designed to provide a “checkup for our schools and allow educators to identify kids who are falling behind and need extra help.” In the spirit of testing kids to see if your test is a proper test for kids, I would like to offer the Education Reformer Field Test. This test is designed to determine if you are falling behind or need extra help in your knowledge of the privatizing, public treasury raiding, child-abusing corporate education reform movement. The test was developed by the Bloggers Against a Rotten Common Core (BARCC).

No. 2 pencils ready. Here we go.

1. Which education reformer, a chief architect of the Common Core, said “You will find that nobody gives a shit about what you think or feel?”

            a. Vladimir Putin     
            b. David Coleman
            c. Dick Cheney
            d. Benito Mussolini

2. Education reformer Michelle Rhee became the darling of the reform movement by doing which of the following?

            a. putting tape over small children’s mouths
            b. firing  a school principal for live television cameras
            c. ignoring a system wide cheating scandal among principals she did not fire
            d. all of the above

3. What does TFA stand for?
            a. Tests for All
            b. Teach for Arne
            c. Time for Amateurs
            d. Teach for America

4. While America finishes in the Russ on Reading: The Education Reformer Field Test: New from BARCC: