Education Quote by Diane Ravitch

The single greatest effect on student achievement is not race, it is not poverty - it is the effectiveness of the teacher.

— Harry Wong

“It was interesting to note that higher standards were seen not as an investment in students; they were seen, first and foremost, as a…

— Amanda Ripley

“Standardized test passing rates are based on arbitrary and political decisions about how many students decision-makers want to fail.”

— Terry Marselle

“It would be impossible to understand the persistence and vehemence of these arguments against test scores without understanding the political purpose they serve. Arguments…

— Thomas Sowell

“He never sat an examination in economics: his knowledge came from pondering problems and discussing them as much as from book-learning.”

— Richard Davenport-Hines

So one of the things that happened with integration in the South is they found that the black teachers were much more educated than…

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

When the students were asked to identify their race on a pretest questionnaire, that simple act was sufficient to prime them with all the…

— Malcolm Gladwell

A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.

— James S. Coleman

Students don't know who Mark Twain was because he wasn't on the test.

— Kinky Friedman

“His teachers, as a result, could shape the minds and values of their students without contradiction from children who might know something of what…

— Blaine Harden

“What was educationally significant and hard to measure has been replaced by what is educationally insignificant and easy to measure. So now we measure…

— Angela Provitera-McGlynn

“Regrettably, I paid far less attention to all those students less able to overcome the hostility and the sense of alienation they faced in…

— Derrick Bell