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Name That Ed Deformer!
by Susan Ohanian
How up-to-date are you on ed deformers? Take this quiz to find out.
Fill in descriptors below with a national and/or local figure--foundation head, politician, CEO, pundit, or someone else suited to fill the position. Below the quiz you'll find some names to help you get started.
Name That Ed Deformer!
1. Data Ace
a) apple-polisher______
b) backseat driver_____
c) bully_____
d) bulldozer_____
2. Data Choice A Prime
a) carbon footprint_____
b) chopping block_____
c) crying wolf_____
d) child abuse______
3. Data Diver
a) dead-end_______
b) doorman______
c) dumpster______
d) sitting duck____
4. Data Entrepreneur
a) eat-you-alive_____
b) eddy sinkhole_____
b) environmental impact statement_____
c) egomania_____
5. Data First-String
a) foreplay____
b) flatulence_____
c) fall guy_____
d) fatality______
6. Data Guru
a) gone bananas____
b) hell-in-a-handbasket____
c) interruptus_______
d) ick factor______
7. Data Jet-Propelled
a) jetsam_____
b) jump-to-conclusions____
c) junky____
d) knuckle under
8. Data Levitation
a) led-by-the-nose____
b) lower-the-boom_____
c) mystery meat_____
d) miles-per-hour_____
9. Data Necromancy
a) needle-in-haystack_____
b) nut factor_____
c) niagara_____
d) not-worth-the-paper-it's-printed-on_____
10. Data Optimized
a) out-to-lunch_____
b) protective services____
c) profiteering_____
d) quisling_____
11. Data Regency
a) radioactive decay____
b) rat-race_____
c) rules-the-roost_____
d) roadblock_____
12. Data Select
a) scapegoat______
b) showboat _____
c) screw-loose_____
d) sell-you-the-Brooklyn-Bridge
13. Data Top-Drawer
a) third degree_____
b) treadmill_____
c) terrorist_____
d) tsunami_____
14. Data Utility
a) upchuck_____
b) ululation_____
b) vulgarity_____
c) vainglory _____
15. Data Venture
a) vilification____
b) voodoo_____
c) victimization_____
d) warfare_____
16. Data World-Class
a) whipping boy_____
b) wild goose chase_____
c) Waterloo_____
d) x-cess pool_____
17. Data Zealot
a) zombie_____
b) zebra mussel____
c) zero tolerance____
d) Zeitgeist____
Here are a few names to help you get started:
governor of your state
education commissioner of your state
big city mayor
editorialist at the New York Times
editorialist at the Wall Street Journal
editorialist at the Fresno Bee, The Commercial Appeal, Los Angeles Times, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Chicago Sun-times, and on and on and on.
Ed reporter at any of the above
AND
- Achieve Inc
- Russlyn Ali
- Jonathan Alter
- American Enterprise Institute
- APEC
- ASCD
- Aspen Institute
- Michael Barber
- Larry Berger
- Michael Bloomberg
- Eli Broad
- David Brooks
- The Bush family
- Business Roundtable
- Doug Carine
- Center for American Progress
- Council of Chief State School Officers
- Bill and Hillary Clinton
- Michael Cohen
- David Coleman
- Democrats for Education Reform
- John Doerr
- Thomas J. Donohue
- Arne Duncan
- the Edelman brothers
- Education Week
- Lily Eskelsen
- Mike Feinberg
- Ronald Ferguson
- Chester Finn
- Donald & Doris Fisher Fund
- Thomas B. Fordham Institute
- Thomas Friedman
- Ronald Fryer, Jr.
- Howard Fuller
- Bill Gates
- General Electric Foundation
- Lou Gerstner
- Roland H. Good, III
- Harvard University Graduate School of Education
- Kati Haycock
- Rick Hess
- Gene Hickok
- James B. Hunt, Jr. Institute
- Walter Isaacson
- Edward Kame'enui
- Ruth Kaminsky
- Kaplan Inc
- Joel Klein
- Wendy Kopp
- Sandy Kress
- Nicholas Kristof
- Dave Levin
- Harold Levy
- G. Reid Lyon
- Harold "Terry" McGraw III
- McKinsey & Company
- Mass Insight
- George Miller
- Louisa Moats
- Eva Moskawitz
- Sen. Patty Murray
- NCTE Executive Director and Executive Committee
- National Governors Association
- Ruben Navarette, Jr
- NBC Education Nation
- NewSchools Venture Fund
- Grover Norquist
Barack Obama
PARCC
Thomas W. Payzant
Pearson
Sue Pimentel
John Podesta
Pritzker Foundation
Michelle Rhee
Roy Romer
Andrew Rotherham
Edward B. Rust, Jr.
William Sanders
Raymond Scheppach
Jon Schnur
Timothy Shanahan
Smarter Balanced Consortium
Kim Smith
Stanford University School of Education
Strategic Management of Human Capital
Teach for America
Teaching Channel
Joseph M. Tucci
Marc Tucker
University of Texas, Dana Center
Paul Vallas
Value Added Measures
Dennis Van Roekel
Walton Famly Foundation
Randi Weingarten
Joanne Weiss
Grover "Russ" Whitehurst
Chris Whittle
Gene Wilhoit
Amy Wilkins
Juan Willliams
