Asks Quote by Michelle Rhee

I've made it a point to listen to the voices of students, teachers, and parents in my Administration, and I've heard loud and clear…

— Josh Shapiro

“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

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

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

“Our schools cannot be improved by the blind worship of data. Data are only as good as the measures used to create the numbers…

— Diane Ravitch

We know the parental support, community support, makes a difference. It's not just the metrics of testing and putting pressure on the schools and…

— Donna Shalala

Second, when comparing private school and public school test scores, it's like apples and oranges. Public schools have to take everyone, but private schools…

— Dennis Moore

“[The] overuse and misuse of standardized tests is only the start of the problems with NCLB. NCLB uses these test scores to impose sanctions…

— Stan Karp

Students do not need to be labeled or measured any more than they are. They don't need more Federal funds, grants, and gimmicks. What…

— Marva Collins

I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean…

— Ashley Rickards

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

The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by…

— Nat Hentoff