A call for President Obama to change course on education

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3. Using McDonalds as a comparison is very apt.

Pervasive testing is the fast food of education: You get a very consistent and franchise-able -- but low quality -- product.

Why reformers do this is two-fold: Monetization of community services, and easy automation of the teaching process. It attacks a professional demographic that steadfastly leans liberal, turning their jobs into fill-in-the-blank and multiple choice questions on a website.

Charter schools will mainly serve to train young students how to operate and obey a computer so that their later studies will involve almost no teachers and scant socialization (draining the "liberal swamp" neocons refer to).