Diana Senechal is having fun with the metrics business. In this post, she manages to combine data mania with the consumer-driven mentality of our current education policymakers.
All in one short article, you get a free parody of choice, value-added assessment, competition, stack ranking, and the Broad Superintendents Academy.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
This is a Onion (theonion.com) article right??
It must be. Just look at its idiocy.
My biometric bracelet shorted out when I read that.
However, if you had not identified this as parody, I would have been appalled but not all together surprised by such a situation and such a proposal. This is excellent stuff. I found myself wondering how such a payment could be managed. Could one arrange to have the cost deducted from each paycheck? OMG. The next big thing!
It’s just a matter of time
So funny; so clever!
Maybe it’s all part of a short-sighted plan to make schools and their employees more like corporate clones —
“They” move the cheese — (usually an attempt to get a quick uptick in the stock price) and blame the employees for not being change agile. How has down-sizing and outsourcing helped the American economy?
How is it going to help education?
It seems that now we just change for the sake of change