In reply to virginia Yonkers.

I think that too is possible, Virginia, though I would hope not. We've seen how much standardized assessments have helped public education systems :( A better approach would be to democratize the workplace so that workers have influence and control over who they work with, as Semco SA has done:

"At Semco workers choose their managers by vote and evaluate them regularly, with the results posted publicly. Of course, Ricardo Semler as an owner has a right for veto. “By having so much stock, I have a loaded gun, but in 25 years I’ve never used it because you can only use it once,” he says. “If I veto someone, the next time they’re going to say, ‘Forget it; he’s going to do what he wants.’ They have to go through processes where they know they’re going to prevail.” For example, the director at Lumiars School is a lively young woman named Lilian Kelian, with no background in education. Semler voted against her. “The parents wanted Lilian, so Lilian’s the new director,” he says. “The person we were backing had 20 years’ experience as a school director. But the parents were more interested in the mind-set, the drive, and the belief system. And Lilian has a lot of qualities. She knows we lobbied against her, but now we work together and off we go.”