Critical thinking Quote by Henry Doss

“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

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

When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where…

— Ernest L. Boyer

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'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

We've bought into the idea that education is about training and "success," defined monetarily, rather than learning to think critically and challenge. We should…

— Chris Hedges

“I believe that this corporate machinery of scripted programs, comprehension worksheets (reproducibles, handouts, printables, whatever you want to call them), computer-based incentive packages, and…

— Donalyn Miller

“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

Teach for America has helped us understand what works and what doesn't.

— Priscilla Chan

The damage of teaching: the constant contact with the undeveloped.

— Theodore Roethke

I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of…

— Barack Obama