It's pointless numbers which don't provide any insight into a student's learning while on the school level are used to punish schools rather than provide more support.
Since it isn't meaningful to learning, students won't actually care about the test unless there are severe consequences, like taking away the ability to graduate, for not doing well.
Since it's high-stakes for the school as well, they develop lesson plans around teaching for the test (eg, taking time away from subjects which aren't tested), and setting up school rally events to add emotional reinforcement.
This is all opportunity cost taking away from actual effective teaching.
I don't know how you turn that into 'globalist boogeyman'. It's techno-managerial blind faith in measurement rather than trust in educators, combined with the classist view that most people should be trained as meat widgets for corporations, not citizens.
Are you sure you mean No Child Left Behind (HW Bush 1)/Race to the Top (Obama 2)'s emphasis on measurable objectives backed by standardized tests? The Common Core is a program/sequence of Grade 2-12 curriculum objectives.
I say this as someone who hates exams as assessment in general, because I'm simply not wired to do any meaningful thinking given a piece of paper, no ability to walk around and think, and always just too little time to gather my thoughts. (I always enjoyed tough problem sets instead.)
Since it isn't meaningful to learning, students won't actually care about the test unless there are severe consequences, like taking away the ability to graduate, for not doing well.
Since it's high-stakes for the school as well, they develop lesson plans around teaching for the test (eg, taking time away from subjects which aren't tested), and setting up school rally events to add emotional reinforcement.
This is all opportunity cost taking away from actual effective teaching.
I don't know how you turn that into 'globalist boogeyman'. It's techno-managerial blind faith in measurement rather than trust in educators, combined with the classist view that most people should be trained as meat widgets for corporations, not citizens.