Quotes About Standardized Testing

#1. Stand up for what is right, regardless of who is committing the wrong.

Suzy Kassem

#2. A sense of responsibility in teaching pushes us constantly to think about and promote the best interests of our students. In contrast, the demand for accountability often induces mere compliance.

Nel Noddings

#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. Standardized testing has swelled and mutated, like a creature in one of those old horror movies, to the point that it now threatens to swallow our schools whole.

Alfie Kohn

#5. I grew up with heroes, people who made me aspire to raise my game, to dream bigger and I like to keep it that simple.

Mike Vallely

#6. For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

Anthony M. Esolen

#7. Depression and anxiety can't fit in your head if you're cultivating feelings of joy and inspiration.

Austin Butler

#8. You are fifty different kinds of twisted."
"Only fifty? Val, you wound me.

Nenia Campbell

#9. Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.

Diane Ravitch

#10. I'm with a crowd but oh so alone.

Elvis Presley

#11. President Obama still places far too much emphasis on relentless testing with standardized exams.

Jonathan Kozol

#12. My kids used to love math. Now it makes them cry. Thanks standardized testing and common core!

Louis C.K.

#13. I kept an open mind on the question of whether a hominid had been present in Europe in the early Pleistocene.

Louis Leakey

#14. The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

James Dyson

#15. The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.

Meir Kahane

#16. Men take care not to make women weep, for God counts their tears.

Thomas S. Monson

#17. For a year, I had all sorts of weirdos coming on to me.

Boris Becker

#18. Manuel was sent to Harvard, where he developed a profound contempt for American culture. 'The Americans,' he would say, 'brush their teeth before kissing and remember a page to answer a question.

Warren Eyster

#19. Oh, but I am. And when we get home, we're gonna have that talk about power all over again.

J.A. Huss

#20. What works for me is knowing the character in an emotional sense. I wish I was more logical but it doesn't work for me like that. I need quite a lot of time; it's why I always worry when I'm doing more than one thing at a time. I hope that some sort of magic will kick in.

Sally Hawkins

#21. Having survived something like that, it shows a person they can take more than they thought. It tempers the soul, and if it doesn't destroy you, it can make you stronger.

Sometimes the old cliches weren't just bullshit.

Tymber Dalton

#22. Today, in the age of standardized testing, thinking and acting, reason and judgment have been thrown out the window just as teachers are increasingly being deskilled and forced to act as semi-robotic technicians good for little more than teaching for the test ...

Henry Giroux