and companies are becoming more proficient overseas and we have a shortfall of up to 50,000 tech engineers according to bill gates and our system is failing, because of the unions. brenda: okay. jehmu, does this make teachers teach to the test and is there something wrong it that? there is something wrong with that. standardized tests make teachers teach to the test and in the long run, it s bad for the economy. standardized tests do not find to be innovators, i can guarantee you that steve jobs doesn t do well on standardized tests and we know that because he went to a crummy college, that s how we know that. you cannot put students all in the same bag, it doesn t students have different ways of learning. the violin here going.