(Guest post by Greg Forster)
Darth Vader, pioneer of tight-loose management practices:
He doesn’t tell you exactly where to bring the fleet out of light speed, he just insists that it be the correct point for pulling off a successful surprise attack on the rebel base. If you pick the wrong point, that’s your fault – and that’s what the assessment and accountability systems are there for.
You have failed me for the last time, Governor Walker!
But for some reason I have the feeling that when the new federal tight-loose approach to standards, curricula and assessments is implemented, it will look a whole lot more like this:
Jay P. Greene's Blog 
The most accurate part is when Lando finally praises the deal. How many states and districts are praising the Gates-Fordham-AFT-Dept of Ed nationalization of education because they fear the deal could be made worse for them?
Given how so many seem to even adore their captors, it seems we once called this Stockholm Syndrome at some point. Alas.