Common core Quote by James Crawford

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

“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

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

“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

Teachers assess to test; educators assess to assist learning.

— Dave Carter

I think a lot of teachers feel like they're teaching to a test. Our response is you teach to a student, you really teach…

— Erin Gruwell

“a large-scale policy mandating a mono-cultural curriculum – focused on teaching to the job may very well create a society of trained workers; but…

— Henry Doss

Standardization of our educational systems [which includes testing]is apt to stamp out individualism and defeat the very ends of education by leveling the product…

— Harvey Cushing

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

People are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact. The teachers who are making the greatest difference go far beyond…

— Wendy Kopp

Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly…

— Anonymous

“       is finding out        what you already know. Doing is demonstrating that      you know it. Teaching is reminding others that they know just as well…

— Richard Bach