Bad idea Quote by Diane Ravitch Download Open image “Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.” — Diane Ravitch ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.3 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad idea Bad ideas Children Cry Educational Ideas Malpractice Testing
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I was always taught at medical school that you should never do a test unless you could do something with the result. — Mark Walport Copy Share Image
Animal testing is a terrible idea. They get nervous and give the wrong answers. — Nikhil Saluja Copy Share Image
A child's job is to test her boundaries, a parent's is to see that she survives the test. — Roger McDonald Copy Share Image
I think test screening works at its best when the audience knows what it's getting. — Barry Levinson Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“Our schools will not improve if we continue to focus only on reading and mathematics while ignoring the other studies that are essential elements… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
When you succeed at keeping almost everyone in school, you must figure out ways to educate everyone you keep in school. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“The history of education is a seemingly endless parade of “new ideas” that are actually old ideas renamed.” — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
We should totally ban for-profit charters. For-profit's first obligation is to its stockholders, not to its children. — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“By picking a few winners, the Race to the Top competition abandoned the traditional idea of equality of educational opportunity, where federal aid favored… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“The reformers define the purpose of education as preparation for global competitiveness, higher education, or the workforce. They view students as “human capital” or… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“While I have never been a member of any union, I was a friend of Albert Shanker, president of the American Federation of Teachers,… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“The corporate reform movement has co-opted progressive themes and language in the service of radical purposes. Advocating the privatization of public education is deeply… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
American Education has a long history of infatuation with fads and ill-considered ideas. The current obsession with making our schools work like a business… — Diane Ravitch Copy Share Image
“In the parking lot, she drove and parked in a dark area with no other cars around. She reclined her seat, and listened to… — Tao Lin Copy Share Image
By the time I was seventeen, I was on my way to Hollywood and didn't look back. My family is supportive now, but like… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
One thing I know is that it is a bad idea to marry someone who had bad parents. If they hated their mother, if… — Ellen Gilchrist Copy Share Image
Government likes committees... a lot. Committees kill all the really good ideas and generally all the really bad ideas. They produce middle-ground mush. — Betsy DeVos Copy Share Image
It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" - although it was really from Machen… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
More than any other personality trait, my mother seemed to be ruled by anger and sadness. She seemed to hate being a mother. Watching… — Merrill Markoe Copy Share Image
“Sorry," he apologized. "I didn't mean to inflict my rantings on you, even though we are destined to spend the rest of our lives… — connie willis Copy Share Image
“Jesus. Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Phoenix, L.A., and Seattle, plus two small towns she'd never heard of in the Gulf Coast region. The unit… — Kay Hooper Copy Share Image
“Civilization is an experiment, a very recent way of life in the human career, and it has a habit of walking into what I… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
Idea-Advocacy Matrix highlights a couple of things: that good ideas need to be "sold" if they are ever going to see the light of… — John Daly Copy Share Image
“It is not a bad idea to get into the habbit of writing one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with… — Isabel Colegate Copy Share Image
“Medical research has revealed that in about one-tenth of the population, the liver processes alcohol differently, releasing a chemical messenger that creates the craving… — Kaylie Jones Copy Share Image
