According to Lorrie A. Shepard, claims that testing will serve equity very often are not true. From minimum competency tests in the '70s; basic-skills tests in the '80s; "tests worth teaching to" in the '90s; high-frequency, high-stakes tests in the '00s; and added layers of commercial interim tests in the '10s, it seems it has accomplished very little. She argues it is long past time to reckon with how the accountability testing strategy has failed, accepting that the country cannot incentivize its way to equity and excellence, and to redirect the efforts to assessments that support learning. It's time to value teachers, strengthen local curricula, build on the knowledge students bring to class, foster caring classroom environments, and focus on assessments that enable next steps for instruction.