Very good blog post by a 25-year teacher who is tired of all the tests:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...throw-my-students-to-the-testing-wolves/

I particularly like this part:
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Just how exactly is my student taking a high-stakes standardized test at the end of the year, the test questions of which I never see, the scored tests and essay questions which are never returned to the child, helping that fifth-grader to learn?