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Why Teaching To The Test Is Destroying Teacher Individuality We need to stop making our teachers teach according to the textbook, and teach toward these state tests and nothing else. No Child Left Behind has incredible goals, but the implementation of those goals may be creating students who are more like learning robots, than those who can really deal with society at large. English Language: Going Beyond Literacy to Total Mastery A person may become genuinely frustrated with language, as in the story Malcolm X: "I became increasingly frustrated at not being able to express what I wanted to convey in letters that I wrote" (Malcolm X). History Defined: Beyond Historical Knowledge One must look at all the historical facts and events recorded from history, to acquire what may be penned as "historical knowledge." This is not just head knowledge and rote memorization, but an understanding of the facts, deaths, purchases, wars, business dealings...