"When teachers are forced to teach to the test, classroom communities are deprived of the opportunity to ask their own questions, pursue their own projects, dig deeper into topics that interest them, rattle cages, tilt at windmills, question authority, rock boats, challenge oppression, create art, and do all the other things that make us fully and freely human."
—Gloria Pipkin and ReLeah Cossett Lent (At the Schoolhouse Gate: Lessons in Intellectual Freedom)