Halloween's over but this animated video, shared by the Washington Post Answer Sheet blog, may still spook you. It shows what can happen when the jargon of reform penetrates far beyond the practice. "Here is an amusing but scary video," writes Post ed reporter Valerie Strauss, "that tells you everything you need to know about what is driving school reform today: a nonsensical obsession with assessment and data." Also see a similar treatment of differentiated instruction gone wrong.
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