Standardized testing, the modern day war against students. This shouldn't be the attitude towards test whose “sole" purpose should be to provide fair assessments so that educators can make high stakes decisions in the admission process for individual students, to help improve teaching and learning, and to generate important data from which policy decisions can be made. However, the purpose of standardized testing whether it be the ACT or the SAT has evolved from an equalizer of opportunity to a biased tool of segregation which strips students of their identity and ability and disguises them as a barcode on a sheet of paper.
