Cards Quote by George W. Bush

“Anyone who truly cares about children must be repelled by the insistence on ranking them, rating them, and labeling them. Whatever the tests measure…

— Diane Ravitch

“. . .standards are for: They establish what children should know, not how they are taught or measured.”

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“The promoters of the standards claim they are based in research. They are not. There is no convincing research, for example, showing that certain…

— Terry Marselle

“How much our society values its children can be measured by how well they are treated and protected.”

— Howard Markel

Children may not notice the positive moments in life unless we point them out to them.

— Deborah Norville

As a child, one looks for compliments. As an adult, one looks for evidence of effectiveness.

— Ben Bradlee

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

“Report card grades are not a good substitute for standardized testing; grades are just too subjective.”

— Greer Gurland

We live in a crazy time, and parents are very worried about their children's futures. They're getting all kinds of messages about children having…

— Roberta Michnick Golinkoff

“We try so hard to instruct our children in all the right things―teaching good from bad, explaining choices and consequences―when in reality most lessons…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

“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

“Adult children – not having a good idea of what ‘normal’ is – tend to guess a lot of the time. They guess at…

— Judy Klipin