High-Stakes Testing: No Trivial Pursuit!

A recent Washington Post editorial favoring standardized tests written by Michelle Rhee began, "No, tests are not fun." 

I would answer, "Then, let's make them fun!" 

Tests can truly be fun!  After all, didn't so many of us revel in being bombarded with questions when we and our friends played Trivial Pursuits? There were always one or two kids who knew all the answers.  Some spied the answers, but others merely prepped at home, meticulously studying the questions one after another so as to appear to be the genius and win the game.  

Not much has changed these days with standardized tests.  Students who study the cards, so to speak, and the teachers who help them with this task, will appear to be the geniuses of the world.  They will seem to be the winners in this high-stakes game.  But will they be the winners in life?  Time will tell.  It is no Trivial Pursuit!  

I would like to propose a new, really fun method for high-stakes testing in this game of life.  I am hoping the leading educational luminaries of today will recognize its merit and, perhaps, cut me a paycheck for proving that tests really can be fun!