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      For whatever reason, our leaders, Democrat and Republican, have been reluctant, even scared, to challenge the power of the Almighty Standardized Test. However, where reality has failed fiction has succeeded. Read and/or watch the following exchange at a teacher workshop as presented on the NBC program “Friday Night Lights,” on June 24, 2011.²

      Citizen Questioner:

      Getting back to the issue of standardized testing, what improvements can be made in regard to college admissions?

      Lead Educator:

      I think that one of the options is that Texas needs a baseline for their standardized test scores and accountability for those scores. Now we can learn a lot from looking at California’s Integrated Accountability System and that has the state academic performance index, and it’s also monitoring the federal adequate yearly process and program improvement.

      Tammy:

      And I would like to add just one thing to that if I could. I feel that we’ve spent a lot of time today talking about these standardized tests, and I think that we’ve already acknowledged that the system is failing us, and if we continue to just keep looking at these tests and focusing on these tests, then we will fail our students. Then if we keep pushing those kids towards the ever-important test score, we’re pushing them to fail.

      Lead Educator:

      It seems naïve to presume that these test scores don’t exist.

      Tammy:

      I don’t mean to presume that they don’t exist, but the students have very different needs and we have a responsibility to see what those needs are and to address them.

      Lead Educator:

      What would you have us do? Sit down with every student in the state?

      Tammy:

      Yes, I would.

      It’s remarkable what we can learn from this 215-word exchange. We gain considerable insight into our values. The scene illustrates the divide between the language of bureaucrats and that of advocates for the well-being of students.

      Let’s start with the seemingly well-intentioned and harmless question in the clip that is submitted by someone who is either a parent or a journalist. “Getting back to the issue of standardized testing, what improvements can be made in regard to college admissions?”

      The citizen is interested in two items: college admissions and standardized tests. It is this kind of question that sets the table for educational bureaucrats to focus on matters that presumably can be measured, but which also may have no relevance to what students need.

      What we need are students who have curiosity about learning, who develop critical thinking skills, and who have a commitment to being a positive-change agents in our society. Not only are we not doing that well now, but recent history would indicate that our educational system has been helping facilitate the growth of far too few responsible citizens.

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