Flexibility Quote by Andy Hargreaves

If we use these common standards as the foundation for better schools, we can give all kids a robust curriculum taught by well prepared,…

— Randi Weingarten

There is no question we need higher academic standards and at the local level the rigor of the Common Core state standards must be…

— Jeb Bush

Common standards ensure that every child across the country is getting the best possible education, no matter where a child lives or what their…

— Roy Romer

If you think of standardization as the best that you know today, but which is to be improved tomorrow; you get somewhere.

— Henry Ford

We cannot do better than to accept the standards of other times, and to adapt them to our uses.

— Elsie de Wolfe

I think standardization is really the first step to something being commodified.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“. . .standards are for: They establish what children should know, not how they are taught or measured.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Standardization of our educational systems is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product down rather…

— Harvey Cushing

I have not seen that standardised tests make the profession less attractive, though some principals respond to them in a way that drives the…

— Wendy Kopp

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

Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped…

— Wendy Kopp

The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their…

— Sonny Perdue