Checker Finn.

Far Right-wingers, Fred Hess of the American Enterprise Institute, and Chester “Checker” Finn of the Fordham Foundation, have a NCLB trashing article in the Teachers College Record on-line edition.

You can and should read it yourself.

But here’s the sum-up:

Lawmakers should insist on a national X-ray using a uniform assessment that makes it simple to compare achievement across schools, districts, states, and demographic groups.

“A national X-ray.”

“Simple to compare.”

That pretty much describes the complexity of assessing teaching and learning, doesn’t it?

Hess and Finn describe that as a “bright future.” You’d better wear shades.