Community Quote by Donna Shalala

Together, we can ensure that when our kids go to school they're doing less testing and more learning.

— Josh Shapiro

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

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

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

Public education has served as a check on the power of parents, and this is another powerful reason for maintaining it.

— John Goodlad

In a large country like the United States or India, families differ significantly on their own education values, and I don't believe it is…

— Howard Gardner

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

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

“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've made it a point to listen to the voices of students, teachers, and parents in my Administration, and I've heard loud and clear…

— Josh Shapiro

We have seen that, in another unfunded mandate, the so-called No Child Left Behind Act, which created tougher standards, and we all support that,…

— Bob Filner

“feeling so far is that standardized testing and performance-based salaries are likely to push education from social norms to market norms. The United States…

— Dan Ariely