I may not be much better suited to answer your question than you, but my understanding goes more like: the intent was "let's use standardized testing to identif

I may not be much better suited to answer your question than you, but my understanding goes more like: the intent was "let's use standardized testing to identify and then help weak students and to support schools that yield good overall students (according to the test results)" and the result was schools trying to game the tests to maintain/gain funding.