'Tis the season

Swiped from Upworthy:



And speaking of testing and gaming the system, it looks like there's an interesting report due out later this week that shows that most of what have been touted as the successes of "ed reform" in the big three cities--New York, Chicago, and Washington, D.C.--aren't. The executive summary is posted here; the full report will be up here later this week.