Creatures Quote by Alfie Kohn

We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a…

— Robert Reich

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'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

“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to open our…

— Ellen Rowland

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

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product…

— Harvey Cushing

As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more…

— Jonathan Kozol

“[The] overuse and misuse of standardized tests is only the start of the problems with NCLB. NCLB uses these test scores to impose sanctions…

— Stan Karp

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like…

— Ken Robinson

Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.

— Diane Ravitch

The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots of testing…

— Howard Gardner

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