Reply #51: I think you've answered your own question.

[sulphurdunn]

"Standardized tests can't measure initiative, creativity, imagination, conceptual thinking, curiosity, effort, irony, judgment, commitment, nuance, good will, ethical reflection, or a host of other valuable dispositions and attributes. What they can measure and count are isolated skills, specific facts and function, content knowledge, the least interesting and least significant aspects of learning."
— Bill Ayers<15>

Educators and parents are no tilting at windmills. They are fighting real dragons. We are losing because too many people look at dragons and see windmills.