John Oliver perfectly sums up everything that’s wrong with standardized testing

[Warpy]

1. I was a lucky kid, great at taking those stupid bubble tests

but I knew too many kids who were just as smart as I was who froze and performed miserably on them. I've worked with smart women who graduated at the top of the class in nursing but who had trouble with the stupid nursing boards. They knew their stuff backwards and forwards, they were just bad at that testing format.

The only way these stupid things will be remotely useful is if they're taken anonymously and followed per teacher and per school over multiple years and if schools with large proportions of non English speaking students and students in extreme poverty have those taken into account.

It might be nice if Florida stopped testing blind students with flash cards, too.

Yeah, they do that.