It's a Malcolm Gladwell reference.
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2nd March 2011

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Stories like this one should be far more damaging to the "education reform" movement than anything Michelle Rhee says or does →

Remember those essays you wrote for standardized tests back in HS? Did you ever wonder how they were graded? Like legislation and sausage, the process is pretty ugly. Except the results are kinda like the sausage produced by the factories in The Jungle or the legislation produced by … some legislative body that’s generally less effective than congress. (I realize that’s a really low bar.)