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We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a…

— Robert Reich

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

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

So long as public schools are treated as places that exist to provide guaranteed jobs to members of the teachers' unions, do not be…

— Thomas Sowell

America needs the best education system in the world. We have it in higher education. We do not have it in general education for…

— John Glenn

I'd rather see the United States as a beacon of good work and good citizenship, rather than as #1 on some international educational measurement.

— Howard Gardner

Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it. At the…

— Jacques Barzun

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like…

— Ken Robinson

“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

The people who run the international tests told us, "the biggest predictor of student success is choice." Nations that "attach the money to the…

— John Stossel

We really shouldnt be running education like a supermarket where you compare prices.

— Shirley Williams

“It takes a heavy commitment to quality education for all to avoid that stratification of society, those needless degrees of separation. But even the…

— William H. Calvin