Too much focus on test results

A Dallas Morning News article goes into an issue that frustrates many friends of mine who are teachers, and apparently is frustrating more than the teachers I know. The article basically says that testing standards are not allowing teachers to focus on teaching their students properly, because so much focus goes into worrying about achieving high test results for their students.
According to the article, a committe in Texas voted to make changes in the current system to modify or even get rid of parts of the accountability system.
I will not be surprised if this becomes a trend for other states as well. The idea of the testing standards is great, but it seems to do more harm than good (at least according to most of the teachers I know). Hopefully there will be a way that teachers can focus more on teaching and less on the added stress of meeting standards, but still graduate competant students.