Class Quote by Ashley Rickards

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

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

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

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

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things…

— Angela Duckworth

You have to remember, we may be the only nation, the only one I know of, that uses test scores not to assess kids,…

— John Merrow

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

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

— Bill Paxton

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

Like my father, I used to believe that hard work and mastery of a standardized exam was the fairest way for students like me…

— Thomas Chatterton Williams

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

When I see kids who naturally get A's and who naturally score high on tests and the teachers naturally like them because they require…

— Jimmy John Liautaud