Stop Sacrificing Children to Moloch

Authors

  • Erik Gillbert, PhD Arkansas State University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18733/cpi29482

Abstract

Erik Gilbert extends his extensive expertise on the assessment and evidence cultures in higher education here with a creative metaphor, a fable. He invites us to consider the Biblical God Moloch, and how through assessment obsession we’re participating in an archaic and illogical practice as inhumane as sacrificing children.

Author Biography

Erik Gillbert, PhD, Arkansas State University

Erik Gilbert is a Professor of History at Arkansas State University. He is the author of Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar (2004) and (with Jonathan Reynolds) Africa in World History (2011). He blogs at badassessment.org.

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Published

2021-05-15