Patrick Michels at Texas Observer: Meet Optimization Zorn, the Company At the Heart of Texas’ Pre-K Accountability Movement
It’s hard to know which is creepier: that Texas is assessing the classroom performance of 4-year-olds in pre-K, or that those assessments are conducted with a secret algorithm by a company named Optimization Zorn.
Yes, Optimization Zorn. That’s the politically connected Arlington-based company—known more commonly (and only slightly less menacingly) as “OZ Systems”—that has the state contract to analyze Texas’ pre-K performance data. You may be surprised to learn that the state is gathering and assessing data on kids who haven’t reached kindergarten yet.
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theprophetlilith reblogged this from se-smith and added:
Doesn’t “zorn” in German mean “wrath” or “anger”?
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