The Test Obsession is killing empathy and creativity in our Students.

http://www.alternet.org/books/how-obsession-test-scores-helps-produce-children-who-lack-creativity-and-empathy?akid=12683.294211.CCVNRs&rd=1&src=newsletter1030226&t=5

Excerpted fromThe Tyranny of the Meritocracy: Democratizing Higher Education in America by Lani Guinier (Beacon Press, 2015). Reprinted with permission from Beacon Press.
Carol Dweck’s numerous studies show that an individual who believes intelligence is “fixed” is much more likely to fail in the face of new challenges, while an individual who believes that intelligence can grow with hard work is much more likely to excel in the face of new challenges.
Dweck first investigated the underpinnings of human motivation as a graduate student at Yale University in the 1960s. She had read about “learned helplessness” in animals. Psychologists at the University of Pennsylvania showed that after repeated failures to stop something negative from happening, most animals conclude that the situation is hopeless and beyond their control. After such an experience, the animal often remains passive even when it can effect change, a state the researchers called “learned helplessness.”