End time Quote by Diane Ravitch

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

So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be…

— Thomas Sowell

The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the…

— John Stossel

“Since the vast majority of factors affecting test scores occur outside school, test scores are poor measures of school quality, teacher quality and student…

— Terry Marselle

“The more time I spent in Finland, the more I started to worry that the reforms sweeping across the United States had the equation…

— Amanda Ripley

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

— William Glasser

The countries who do the best in international comparisons, whether it's Finland or Japan, Denmark or Singapore, do well because they have professional teachers…

— Howard Gardner

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

“Unfortunately, too many of our schools depend on inexperienced teachers with little training in the subjects they're teaching, and too often those teachers are…

— Barack Obama

It's critical that states improve how teachers are trained, recruited, evaluated, compensated, advanced, and retained.

— Eli Broad