Edutopia News:  http://www.edutopia.org/edutopianews.html reports a Seattle teacher rejecting the  State’s Standardized Test. The item came from NPR organisation http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90167639 A teacher in the Seattle School District is defying federal, state, and district regulations by refusing to administer the Washington Assessment of Student Learning test. He believes the test is harmful to students, teachers, schools, and families. (NPR)

Perhaps there is an emerging sense of of the futlity and damage of high stakes, exams, SATs and alike. See also Testing to Destruction below