Of the many changes one should consider making to the current education system in America, perhaps the most radical and the most beneficial would be the removal or the revamping of the testing method. With the constant demand of tests, true education is lost in favor of a curriculum that simply teaches to a test. This problem is amplified in the case of national and state mandated tests, as one finds an entire year spent teaching to the subject's final test. While one may argue that such tests are necessary to indicate a student's knowledge of the subject, it also compromises the quality of the education given.

While the need to measure the depth of a student's knowledge is understandable, tests, particularly written examinations, are sometimes inaccurate in this pursuit. When one takes a written examination, each questions is simply a questions of odds and probability. By probability...