I was recently in a PhD program and left it for this reason. I worked very hard to matriculate into this program. However, the University's practices and approaches were essentially the same as they have been for decades...maybe even a century. The colleges and universities that teach teachers must lead the change if the newly trained educators are going to be expected to teach differently. From what I experienced, this was not the case. It felt very much as though they were more invested in protecting the status quo than exploring new methods and reassessing educational objectives and outcomes...or new ways for educational success to be measured. There are multiple ways to to teach and learn but this was not what I experienced or saw promoted. As long as we are using the outmoded and invalid tool of standardized testing to evaluate educational effectiveness, innovative methods are doomed. We need to develop multiple methods and multiple measures. The current testing regimen will suppress, ignore, or force innovations and changes to be applied in half-measures that will undermine effectiveness and lead to the erroneous conclusion that they don't work: much like taking half doses of medicine will not effect the desired cure as efficaciously as a full dose...possibly even impeding its benefits.