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Acronyms for Our Time
You'll never find Eggplant items in any other news source. They don't have the nerve.
by Susan Ohanian
This week, ACE, the Acronym Collaborative Ensemble, a group of 7,852 representatives from organizations receiving grants from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to promote the Common Core State [sic] Standards, presented its recommendations for identifying the various consistent and clear initiatives of the CCSS so teachers and parents know what they need to do to help students learn to be productive workers in the Global Economy.
These acronyms have been approved by the Council of Chief State School Officers (CCSSO)
and the National Governors Association Center for Best Practice. They await confirmation from the Department of Homeland Security and the World Bank.
ADAPT Auxiliary Daily Achievement Pre-K Triggerpoint
AMMO Amortized Measurement Mandate Ordinance
BURP Benchmarked Uninterrupted Rubrics Payload
BUZZ Blue-ribbon Unified Zealotry Zone
COBRA Curriculum Optimum Battery Ranking Assignment
CRISIS Cutting-edge Ritual Identity Septic Iteration System
DIVE Danielson Information-age Vector Exchange
DRIVE Data-Warehousing Rubric Installation Virus Ergonomics
EPIC Evaluation Protective Interface Critique
EVIL Efficient Visualization Industrial Leverage
FILTH Formative Indentured Lost Teacher Hospice
FLAB Failsafe Lie-detector Achievement Benchmarks
GATES Godawful Arachibutyrophobia Target Eminence Scope-and-Sequence
GROSS Global Rat-race Operative Size Survey
HURT Hegemonic Utilization Ruling Trajectory
ICK Individualized Checklist Kinetics
ILL Instrumental Litter Longitude
JOKE Jumpstart Operative Knee-jerk Eugenics
KAPUT Kill-zone Analytic Pyramid UHF Triad
KILL Knowledge-systems Intensity Left-brain Loopholes
LAME Literature Alignment Market-forces Enemies-list
LOST Leftover Operational Selective Team
MARCH Management Arc Rejuvenation of Hubris
MOB Mathematics Operational Blowback
NAH! National Assessment Humbug
NUTS Needs-driven Urban Testing Suite
OOPS Oscillating Optimal Publisher Scam
ONUS Out-turn Network Uptake Schema
PUKE Prescribed Upswing of Knuckle-under Evaluations
PUSH Pinpointing Universal Stakeholder Heuristics
QUAFF Quantitative Utilization of Assessment Freefall Fractals
QUIT Quadratic Upswing of Incessant Testing
ROT Ruling-Class Overthrow of Teachers
RUDE Rubrics-based Utilization of Detritus Equity
SAPP Sequential Assessment Protection Program
SOT Soluble Operationalized Testing
TIRED Taxonomic Impact Requisite Evaluation Download
TOXIC Testing Overview X-spot Information Collaboration
UGLY User-friendly Game-plan Leveraged Yield
USED Urban Species Evaluation Dexterity
VIRUS Vector-borne Investment Reassignment Utility Setup
VICTIM Validating Instrument Consignment Taskforce Input Multiplex
WEARY Workplace Ergonomic Assessment Review Yield
WOE World-class Overview Efficiency
YAP Yearlong Assessment Paradigm
YAWN Year-end Assessment Whiplash Nodule
ZAP Zig-zag Assessment Pyramid
ZERO Zombie Evaluaton Routine Organizer
— Susan Ohanian
blog
2013-02-01
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