Reply #1: Rote learning

[Wwagsthedog]

Besides problems noted in the article, one big failing of standardized testing is that it fosters rote learning because teachers are reduced to "teaching the tests". Critical thinking skills will not be encouraged or rewarded leaving most future students and graduates without the ability to be much more than willing members of a big brother type of society. For the ideologues, governing human automatons is a desirable objective.