Quotes About High Stakes Testing

#1. Public education is so important - resisting privatization and charterization, high-stakes testing, and defunding. It's important for New York, but it's also important for the country.

Zephyr Teachout

#2. The most volatile current debate among American school administrators, teachers, parents, and students concerns "high-stakes" testing. The stakes are considered high because instead of simply testing students to measure their progress, schools are increasingly held accountable for the results.

Anonymous

#3. Hence [through No Child Left Behind] the state has been given power...to fire all teachers and principles. So here we have an unusual case in which the students are engaged in the performances, but the high stakes have been displaced onto the teachers who are preparing their charges for the exams.

James M. Lang

#4. There is darkness without and when I die there will be darkness within. There is no splendor, nor vastness anywhere; only triviality for a moment and then nothing.

Bertrand Russell

#5. The power of the past does not depend on our knowledge of it.

Mason Cooley

#6. Live and let live" is an old adage. "Live and help live" is a better one.

David O. McKay

#7. Brilliance in a scientist does not consist in being right more often but in being wrong about more interesting topics.

Kent Beck

#8. The legendary Tuatha De Danaan had come! And what did the grand Keltar laird do?
Fainted like a willy-nilly peahen.

Karen Marie Moning

#9. Humility is realm of a humble heart.

Lailah Gifty Akita