Many teachers' jobs are threatened when class test scores are not where they should be. Frances Banales says, “We need to raise test scores…Everything is overshadowed by a high-stakes test.” (Overman 2) A teacher must teach the material found on the end-of-year state test in the allotted time of one school year. To fit all the material into a school year, a teacher must prepare students and himself for the test. This teaches students nothing other than how to take the test and is why students are not ready for college says, “…the time spent teaching students test-taking techniques: how to fill in the bubbles on the paper answers, whether to guess or not, what to do when time is running out, and so on?” (Phelps 1 ) Teachers are so focused on test scores that reflect on the teacher and do not focus on whether students actually learn the material. Students are taught to use short-term memory to remember test material in a week instead of learning the material for a lifetime. Students arrive at college and are lost because they don't remember any of the courses. Linda states, “Individual teacher ratings do not accurately reveal their ability to teach.” (Hammond 2) Pointing out test scores is what every teacher does, but students don't