Bad idea Quote by Diane Ravitch

The high stakes test culture runs almost totally counter to what we know about how people learn. It causes us to engage in professional…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

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

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

“I want to kidnap kids and force them to take useless tests all day long. Wait, that’s what our public education system already does.”

— Jarod Kintz

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

I don't want my children to feel the same sense of failure I did growing up because they're not good at passing tests.

— Ben Fogle

I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result.

— Mark Walport

Animal testing is a terrible idea. They get nervous and give the wrong answers.

— Nikhil Saluja

A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test.

— Roger McDonald

I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting.

— Barry Levinson

Life teaches us the greatest lessons and gives us the best gifts. We may not have control over all the tests, but you can…

— Allyson Partridge

The problems in our educational system are indissociable from broader malignant trends in our society, and they can't be solved by lots of testing…

— Howard Gardner