Quotes About Standardized Tests

#1. Big data has been used by human beings for a long time - just in bricks-and-mortar applications. Insurance and standardized tests are both examples of big data from before the Internet.

Jose Ferreira

#2. Standardized state tests are a scam! The educational system is rigged. It is set up to where the wealthy schools, get all of the state funding. The poverty-stricken schools, don't get enough funding due to standardized tests scores. See my point?

Mary Sage Nguyen

#3. The SAT is not perfect. We all know smart, knowledgeable people who do badly on standardized tests. But neither is it useless. SAT scores do measure both specific knowledge and valuable thinking skills.

Virginia Postrel

#4. Then there's the business of standardized tests. Henry refused to take the SATs - he'd probably score off the charts if he did, but he's got some kind of aesthetic objection to them.

Donna Tartt

#5. Sometimes, the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.

Diane Ravitch

#6. ...a school's worth should be measured not by how its students perform on standardized tests but by how well they function as adult graduates of the school...

Terry Roberts

#7. I read so slow. If I have a script, I'm going to read it five times slower than any other actor, but I'll be able to tell you everything in it. It kills me that there are standardized tests geared towards just one kind of child.

Channing Tatum

#8. We are creating a one size fits all system that needlessly brands many young people as failures, when they might thrive if offered a different education whose progress was measured differently. Paradoxically we're embracing standardized tests just when the economy is eliminating standardized jobs.

Robert Reich

#9. ultimately, the long-term goal is to have a critically informed public vote out of office representatives that are sacrificing children to the corporate bottom line with prepackaged teacher-proof curricula, standardized tests, and accountability schemes.

Pepi Leistyna

#10. If they had given standardized tests in assassin school, he would not have lasted a day.

Charlie Jane Anders

#11. Don't let anyone tell you that standardized tests are not accurate measures. The truth of the matter is they offer a remarkably precise method for gauging the size of the houses near the school where the test was administered.

Alfie Kohn

#12. Most times when I do a film, it starts out with one idea and ends up not being what I thought it was going to be.

Lee Daniels

#13. Even trying it as an actor, I never thought I'd actually make it.

Hank Azaria

#14. Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

James Russell Lowell

#15. So if it was just me, myself, and I until the end of time, I'd probably be okay with that.

Audrey Bell

#16. 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

#17. I guess I have kind of a type. Pretty much anybody who shows up in a black leather overcoat, I've doubled for them.

Chad Stahelski

#18. Before I left, he said, 'Nothing in this life remains unchanged, o meu menino. Not even mountains.

Oksana Marafioti

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

Diane Ravitch

#20. I was advised by an American agent when I was about 19 to change my surname.

Rachel Weisz

#21. Whoever said there's no such thing as a stupid question never looked carefully at a standardized test.

Alfie Kohn

#22. 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