"As the late Senator Paul Wellstone, D-Minn., put it in a speech in 2000: 'Making students accountable for test scores works well on a bumper sticker, and it allows many politicians to look good by saying that they will not tolerate failure. But it represents a hollow promise. Far from improving education, high-stakes testing marks a major retreat from fairness, from accuracy, from quality, and from equity.' Here's why...The tests may be biased...Guess who can afford better test preparation?...The quality of instruction declines most for those who have least...Standards aren't the main ingredient that's in low supply...Those allegedly helped will be driven out." Kohn

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