“Suppose that next year almost all the students in your state met the standards and passed the tests. What do you suppose would be the reaction from the politicians, businesspeople, and newspaper editorialists? Would these folks shake their heads in frank admiration and say, ‘Damn, those teachers are good’? That possibility, of course, is improbable to the point of hilarity ... across-the-board student success would immediately be taken as evidence that the tests were too easy.” (Ford, 2005, p. 24)