Standardized testing has become something of a norm under the No Child Left Behind Act. This left the student and teacher responsible for having high test scores and forced teachers to teach directly to the curriculum. Standardized tests help develop memory, but at the expense of creativity (Emanuel 9-10). This is the problem behind standardized tests, is that they have become linear and obsolete (Emanuel 9-10). This has been noted by many, for example Sir Ken Robinson said: "Tests are in principle a logical way of measuring students' knowledge", but he goes on to say that "in practice it creates a learning environment very arid. This shows that the No Child Left Behind Act and standardized testing are not working, but why and how can they be fixed. While teaching how to get an "f," writer Steven Slon recounts how he almost killed his son. teacher. Why you ask, well, she single-handedly killed the student's appetite for learning. He immediately asked the principle to change his curriculum to a more flexible one, which led to an increase in the child's curiosity to want to relearn and acquire knowledge (Slon 47-49). This shows that teaching whose curriculum deprives learning of the pleasure can be detrimental to a child who wants to learn and can alienate them from school. The same can be said if you bombard students with tests, it will have the same effect as a boring curriculum. Now that we know the tests don't work, why are we still doing them? Sir Robinson brings up an interesting idea, that this is all a political game. He says: “that education should be taken out of the hands of politicians, because they are not interested in education, all they want is to have a high standard of paper. ... Starko also explains that students should study the lives of creative people in order to understand what inhibits creativity. Finally, the last step is to teach creativity in each subject. Not all creativity ideas work for different subjects, so it is important to show which ones are known to work best in each subject. Standardized testing shows that it is not enough to give students a test to see who has the highest score. Students must be allowed to grow and become interested in education by guiding them and not forcing them to achieve higher marks in exams. Performing standardized testing is, as Stephanie Schneider says, “like checking if a plant was growing by pulling it out and checking” (Schneider and Christison 30-32). The United States was once a country of originality, but has now replaced it with a competition to see who can get a higher score..