Data Quote by Diane Ravitch

You can't just abandon accountability measures in schools... Educators want that because otherwise they can't identify achievement-gap issues for students.

— Michelle Lujan Grisham

Standardized tests are an indicator of the kind of service taxpayers are receiving - and whether schools, educators and policymakers are doing their jobs.…

— Michelle Rhee

In DC, policymakers think that if we can only have high enough standards, tough enough tests, and hold people accountable, we can close the…

— 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

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

“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

SAT tests are designed by huge panels of experts in education and psychology who work for years to design tests in which not one…

— Dave Barry

Man, I wouldn't know where to begin on education reform, but one thing we have to do is add teacher accountability WITHOUT stressing standardized…

— Raheem Jarbo

We cannot blame the schools alone for the dismal decline in SAT verbal scores. When our kids come home from school do they pick…

— George W. Bush

We measure the success of schools not by the kinds of human beings they promote but by whatever increases in reading scores they chalk…

— Kenneth Keniston

For teachers, getting annual test scores several months after taking the test and in most cases long after the students have departed for the…

— Douglas B. Reeves

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and…

— Donna Shalala