The funny thing is, standardized testing isn't the biggest problem. A lot of school - right through high school - is inane process following. Kids need a specific size notebook (often a specific color) for each class. They have to file massive amounts of paper specifying that they've done this or that task. At least half of school is now stupid process; I suspect that many of us who graduated in the late 70's and early 80's couldn't tolerate the modern system. What we need is fewer anal types teaching and designing teaching rules. The tests are the very, very least of our problems....