Attractive Quote by Wendy Kopp

Standardised tests cannot capture all, but on the other hand, students who are not capable of doing well on standardised tests are not well-equipped…

— Wendy Kopp

We need standards with flexibility, not standardization with force if we are to get the best from our teachers.

— Andy Hargreaves

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 am not against standardized tests. There are tests and tests and tests, and, to simplify, the ones I favor are criterion-referenced tests of…

— Nicholas Lemann

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

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

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

“[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

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

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

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

What all good teachers have in common, however, is that they set high standards for their students and do not settle for anything less.

— Marva Collins