In the contest to see who can come up with the best form of loss aversion to motivate high test scores, we have a first entrant that looks incredibly strong.
Supposing you say to teachers, get those scores up or we take away your first born.
Don’t you think those scores are going up?
Supposing you said it to doctors?
They would all become dermatologists, and no one would be a surgeon.
What if you say it to economists?
You can bet all their predictions will be very safe.
Can you top this?
True, it didn’t work for pharaoh–the Hebrews packed up and moved out.
But hey, maybe it will work for teachers. Where can they go?
Diane Ravitch's blog 
The late Albert Mamary, a superintendent who succeeded in bringing his poor district up to the level of wealthy suburban schools, said to me: “You can threaten and punish people into doing a lot of things, but learning isn’t one of them.” I would think that the same applies to teaching. The joke motivational motto “the beatings will continue until morale improves” seems to be the main idea of current reformers. Unbelievable.
As Harvey Korman said to Slim Pickens in Blazing Saddles when the same idea was proposed for the people of Rock Ridge, “too Jewish.”
Let’s see. If scores are high, teachers get to keep their dignity and privacy. If scores drop, teachers’ names are published in a list of shame in major newspapers.
Oh, wait. That one’s already real.