Reducing children to a test score is the worst form of identity theft we could commit in schools. — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
G.P.A.’s are worthless as a criteria for hiring, and test scores are worthless. We found that they don’t predict anything. — Laszlo Bock Copy Share Image
If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve. — William Glasser Copy Share Image
Test scores and measures of achievement tell you where a student is, but they don't tell you where a student could end… — Carol S. Dweck Copy Share Image
“prisons were built based on our third grade Iowa Basics test scores,” — Mark O'Neal Copy Share Image
“In America we build prisons based on third-grade test scores. So, if the test scores in the area are bad we know… — Tuvia Tenenbom Copy Share Image
The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless.… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
According to research, test scores improved by 17.3% for students regularly engaged in chess classes, compared with only 4.6% for children participating… — Susan Polgar Copy Share Image
All we know is that the school achievement, IQ test score, and emotional and social development of working mothers' children are every… — Sandra Scarr Copy Share Image
The world is a bell curve. Classroom test scores, employee performance in a company or how many people really, really like you.… — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
Scientific research and other studies have demonstrated that arts education can enhance American students' math and language skills and improve test scores… — Thad Cochran Copy Share Image
The United States ranks 14th in the world in education. Even if we subtract Sarah Palin's test scores, it only bumps us… — Christopher Titus Copy Share Image
“Also mostly lost in the turmoil over whether minority admissions violate traditional standards of merit is the impressive evidence that grades and… — Derrick Bell Copy Share Image
You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to… — John Merrow Copy Share Image
“NAEP data show beyond question that test scores in reading and math have improved for almost every group of students over the… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a… — Rafe Esquith Copy Share Image
The origins of these [schooling] federal policies were tied to President Johnson's war on poverty. Supplemental funds were sent to school districts… — Pedro Noguera Copy Share Image
I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals… — Carol Ann Tomlinson Copy Share Image
I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My… — Henry Petroski Copy Share Image
I am a product of affirmative action. I am the perfect affirmative action baby. I am Puerto Rican, born and raised in… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money… — John Stossel Copy Share Image
Parents are used to being made to feel guilty about...their contribution to the population problem, the school tax burden, and declining test… — C. Sommerville Copy Share Image
Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but… — Dennis Moore Copy Share Image
The widespread belief among politicians and pundits is that high test scores are everything. I strongly disagree. What matters most is character.… — Hal Urban Copy Share Image
“Since the vast majority of factors affecting test scores occur outside school, test scores are poor measures of school quality, teacher quality… — Terry Marselle Copy Share Image
Environment-based education produces student gains in social studies, science, language arts, and math; improves standardized test scores and grade-point averages; and develops… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
When test scores go up, we should worry, because of how poor a measure they are of what matters, and what you… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Increased physical activity during the school day can help children's attention, classroom behavior, and achievement test scores. Meanwhile, the decline of play… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT… — Raheem Jarbo Copy Share Image
With my academic achievement in high school, I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my… — Sonia Sotomayor Copy Share Image
If you think dealing with issues like worthiness and authenticity and vulnerability are not worthwhile because there are more pressing issues, like… — Brene Brown Copy Share Image
In California we froze property taxes, school size increased, test scores declined, and there was a massive middle-class white flight to private… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A top-quartile teacher will increase the performance of their class - based on test scores - by over 10 percent in a… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
If there's one thing that 'No Child Left Behind' has proven, it's that more academics don't make for smarter children - or… — Darell Hammond Copy Share Image
Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
I don't regard the fact that there's a disparity in test scores nearly as importantly as I do the need for diversity,… — Derek Bok Copy Share Image
It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has… — Howard Gardner Copy Share Image
What do teachers and curriculum directors mean by 'value' reading? A look at the practice of most schools suggests that when a… — Kelly Gallagher Copy Share Image
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