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Many, if not, all teachers are held accountable for testing scores towards the end of the academic year. Because of this pressure, it compromises the pedagogy of teachers and the extent of teaching other subjects. Moreover, it is reported that the accountability that teachers are faced with contradicts their pedagogy resulting in teaching students in ways they don’t consider professional, conducive, and successful. This new unwanted adjustment in pedagogy, when narrowing down the extent to which teachers teach other subjects, leads them to emphasize on the specific test-worthy information that is likely to appear in these multiple choice standardized tests. Consequently, the enormous amount of information that students need, and tend, to memorize for these multiple-choice tests, neglects them with material that involves critical thinking and problem-solving skills. In American writer, educator, and activist, Jonathan Kozol’s book, “Shame of the Nation: The Restoration of Apartheid Schooling in America”, he reinforces this matter when he describes this type of pedagogy as having “no theatricality”; thus, many times teachers choose subjects out of their interest. Although standardized testing allows for comparisons in regards to student achievement throughout a diverse amount of schools, the pressure that teachers obtain for the accountability of high testing scores negatively affects students and their future lifelong skills.