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kahale's review
3.0
A parody of Dickens "A Christmas Carol" where Scrooge is the CEO of an educational testing company. Most of the elements and characters are there but the theme is that education has been compromised by only teaching to the test and not the joy of learning.
analyticali's review
2.0
It's a well written combination of A Christmas Carol and the problems of the obsession with testing in modern American education. It made me really want to keep teaching, but it made me want to keep teaching overseas where there are fewer standardized tests. The book occasionally went "too far" (suggesting people don't need to learn algebra, for example). For the most part, it made good points and seemed well researched.
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