"Pseudo-objectivity"

Completely unrelated (it would seem) to education?  I extrapolate an apt analogy from Dr. Muller's critique of using mathematical models to accurately represent qualitative content.  Put another way, the "cult of accountablilty" led to the false conception that numbers were all that mattered.  Get the equation right, get the statistical objectivity down, get the final tabulation graphed, and you create a true vision of what is what.

Read the whole essay for a nice primer in the economic recession.  Then read again, only this time think "school" instead of economy.