Culture Quote by Carol Ann Tomlinson

I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more…

— Davis Guggenheim

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

When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say……

— Myron Tribus

“Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her…

— Jay Parini

Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing…

— Diane Ravitch

Kids can and will thrive in the right conditions, but it all seems to start with the teachers, and giving those teachers the resources…

— Morgan Spurlock

“[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

“Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing them in…

— Diane Ravitch

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 think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach…

— Erin Gruwell

“Nevertheless, in the field of second and foreign language teaching, behaviorist pedagogy—i.e., direct instruction in various forms—maintains a large following, which seems to grow…

— James Crawford

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