Quote by Terry Marselle

If you improve education by teaching for competence, eliminating schooling, and connecting with students, the test scores will improve.

— William Glasser

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

As damaging as the obsessive emphasis on testing often proves to be for kids in general, I believe that the effects are still more…

— Jonathan Kozol

Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful…

— Bill Gates

It's important to underscore that it is not mediocre test scores that have caused the major problems in the U.S. It has been unnecessary…

— Howard Gardner

“Nations such as Finland, Canada, Japan, and South Korea spend time and resources improving the skills of their teachers, not selectively firing them in…

— Diane Ravitch

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

Never compare one student's test score to another's. Always measure a child's progress against her past performance. There will always be a better reader,…

— Rafe Esquith

“[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

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