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“Averaged scores say very little about actual learning: any number of students can earn a B for many different combinations of reasons. A gifted…

— Starr Sackstein

“Every time a student's family income increases by $5,000, the student's SAT score (either math or verbal) rises; for each $5,000 decrease, the score…

— Christopher de Vinck

Want to know why American students' SAT scores are falling? We've kicked the light of the world out of the classroom.

— John Hagee

“NAEP data show beyond question that test scores in reading and math have improved for almost every group of students over the past two…

— Diane Ravitch

“Successful People studied to gain knowledge not to gain Grades.”

— Udayveer Singh

“You sometimes get by, perhaps even get good grades, but if you don’t pay the price day in and day out, you never achieve…

— Stephen R. Covey

“Those who were frequently tested reached the end of the semester on top of the material and did not need to cram for exams.…

— Peter C. Brown

“I was a straight-A student at a university” does not mean what it did in 1960 or even 1980. A study of two hundred…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“look at the last column, which totals up all the summer gains from first grade to fifth grade. The reading scores of the poor…

— Malcolm Gladwell

“Standardized test passing rates are based on arbitrary and political decisions about how many students decision-makers want to fail.”

— Terry Marselle

“Forty-two percent of college graduates never read a book after college.”

— John C. Maxwell

“The whole system was based upon getting kids to a certain standard and packing their minds with information so they could go on to…

— Bill Bryson