Cook: The test before us

David Cook

Students and teachers aren’t lab rats. Yet like crispy carrots in front of a donkey, our educational leaders – can I use that word? – dangle incentive after incentive, hoping, sooner or later, teachers and kids will make it through the maze.

Want more money? Get your students to perform better.

Want to do well in life? Pass this test.

It’s all a lie. A dead-end, rotten, stinking lie.