First person Quote by Alejandro Zambra

I've made it a point to listen to the voices of students, teachers, and parents in my Administration, and I've heard loud and clear…

— Josh Shapiro

“I was a competent standardized test taker.”

— John Green

I am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of…

— Nicholas Lemann

Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to…

— Alfie Kohn

I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean…

— Ashley Rickards

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

— Elie Wiesel

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by…

— Nat Hentoff

“Writers are solitaries by vocation and necessity. I sometimes think the test is not so much talent, which is not as rare as people…

— Rebecca Solnit

Tests are special, the format closest to my heart.

— Gautam Gambhir

I hate tests. It's a really lousy way to judge a person's ability.

— Bill Paxton

“Write the tests first, or second, or third. But write the darned tests.”

— Russ Olsen