Children Quote by Diane Ravitch

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

“Test-oriented teaching strikes me as anti-educational, a kind of unpleasant game that subverts the real aim of education: to waken a student to her…

— Jay Parini

I think [testing] has had a profoundly problematic impact on student learning. It must seem to students that their worth as individuals is equivalent…

— Carol Ann Tomlinson

“School is not a brand holding a monopoly on learning, and we need to stop feeding it as such. It’s time to open our…

— Ellen Rowland

I'm not one of these guys who thinks testing is the only thing. But testing is a piece but there has to be more…

— Davis Guggenheim

When teachers are forced to teach to the test, students get bored and genuine education ceases, no matter what the test scores may say……

— Myron Tribus

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 am asking teachers to understand that we must make the education relevant for the children. If they're only working for the tests or…

— Rafe Esquith

The biggest dilemma in education today is the differing visions of what an educated person means. To do well on tests is often more…

— Linda Lantieri

“Exams do not assess anything significant to the future of children, because no one knows how to assess or measure the key factors to…

— Russell L. Ackoff

I do believe that when your child does poorly on a test, your first step should not necessarily be to attack the teacher or…

— Amy Chua

The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

— George Bernard Shaw