Again, I'm not saying that 100% of teacher evaluation should be based on tests. If you want to evaluate teachers based on the moral character they are building in students, fine - that's not what I'm advocating standardized tests for. They're for measuring "book learning" and they're pretty good at it.
You can judge most of the goals in retrospect, say 20 years out: what proportion of kids ended up in jail, what proportion ended up with good jobs, what proportion are informed citizens capable of reading the news and participating intelligently in the political process, what proportion are able to handle their personal finances, nutrition, health-care, etc. successfully, what proportion won prestigious awards or started successful businesses, and so on. But writing a test for 18-year-olds to take that predicts all that accurately is pretty hard, and as far as I know, no tests have shown even plausible evidence of their predictive power in that respect, especially when you control for demographics.