My other big beef with this nonsense is that it's very costly as well. I pay something like $5k in school taxes annually. I'll probably be picking up a job to lay for private schooling, because I refuse to send my son through the meat grinder.
Tests are shown to reinforce learning. High stakes tests aren't, though, because they start to cause too many distortions.
I find the attitude that I assume must be driving this agenda to be so presumptuous as to be infuriating. In order to test something, you must know what it is you expect that thing to be at the time of the test.
The very notion that we can codify these expectations of 6 year olds really drives me nuts. Let them be whoever the hell they want to be, without worrying about whatever society thinks it needs from them, a little longer.
Maybe you're just not very good at writing tests? Just because you can't think up a good test doesn't mean they don't exist.
The point isn't whether or not I could. The point is whether or not I should.