Higher testing. Not higher learning

http://www.education.com/reference/article/Ref_Test_Problems_Seven/?page=3

As I was reading the article I found about problems with testing I found a point that I feels relate heavy to everything that we have been talking about in class. The point that the article made is that “higher test scores do not mean more learning”. It goes on to talk about the fact that just because test preparation increases scores it does not increase the ability to apply your knowledge to other situations. This relates to the scary fact that creativity is being taken out of the classroom, which means it is basically beign taken out of our future generations. The school systems are becoming more and more like the ones that the guest speaker from Korea talked about. Therefore our future generations are actually becoming