CHAPTER 9: The Testing Industrial Complex: Incarcerating Education Since 2001

The Testing Industrial Complex (TIC), is a system in which high-stakes standardized testing fuels neoliberal education reforms. The “reforms” create a system in which curriculum, students, and teachers become currencies traded for corporate profit. The Prison Industrial Complex (PIC), is a system in which inmates are currency offered in trade to private corporations. The analogous systems grow from neoliberalism unplugged—a concert of neoliberal policy that supplants humanity with financial gain for U.S. Elite.