Our educational system has continued to face a variety of controversial issues. In recent decades, the issue of standardized testing has been one of increasing concern to students and teachers alike. Standardized tests in particular have become an indicator in not just assessing student achievement but also in judging teachers for how effectively they teach. This has led to the emergence of “teaching to the test.” As Alfie Kohn, a major opponent of standardized testing, discusses in his book, The Case against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools, teachers end up setting aside other specific subjects for a later period so that they may devote their time to boost students’ test scores by exclusively focusing on test content. This way, “both the content and the format of instruction are affected [and] the test essentially becomes the curriculum.” Because subjects such as reading and math are often the areas tested in high-stakes exams, other subjects such as history are then given much less focus. In the same way, teachers also feel the need to prepare students for these tests to safeguard their jobs and to maintain their school district’s ratings and rankings. As a result, standardized testing causes teachers to adopt ill educational practices – deliberate or otherwise.