“Verdaillia Turner, who heads Georgia’s and Atlanta’s teachers’ unions, complains that the tests have turned teachers into “little robots. The best and brightest do not go into teaching any more.””

Come on now. When did the ‘best and brightest’ ever go into education? Especially primary education.

Next, what is wrong with ‘teaching the test’? The only difference here is that the test being taught is a universal standard of performance instead of an individual teachers personal view. Especially the view that a passing grade based on an idividual teachers standards is even more suspect than teaching to a standard test.

Sorry educators, you lost my support 30 years ago.