The secret is what he really wants to do in life
He’s from you’re a weeb and his name is aaron
From the first point of view, standardization has ruined education because it has distort the student growth based on how much emphasis it has placed on test rather than pure learning and understanding in schools. The syllabus the teachers were to cover on certain subjects have been neglected which may affect American's children in the nearest future. It must also be known that scandalized test has destroyed creativity and reasonable thinking.
On the second answer, the test time that are taking inform of prep after schools will result into longer period of time students will be spending in schooling with extra cost paid.
Thirdly, the writer description about ingenuity simply means that student ability to be creative will reduced based on the fact that standardize test only support a direct way or single answer with no deep thinking of other possible answers.
What are we making a connection to? you could say this reminds me of a song i listened to because the meaning of the song had a similar meaning to the passage