Standardized Exams Quotes

#1. In Gadsden County, Florida, for example, students were required to take a total of 242 standardized exams between kindergarten and their high school graduation day, according to a recent study by the conservative Foundation for Excellence in Education.

Anonymous

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

Jonathan Kozol

#3. Encouragement gives strength to every soul.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#4. That could be fate, you know.

Colleen Hoover

#5. In order to fail, first you have to try.

Jasper Fforde

#6. Women might not like to admit their age, but men don't like to act theirs.

Jill Shalvis

#7. But what I didn't recognize when I was much younger was this sort of ... when you're on, when you're really on, go at it.

Tony Gilroy

#8. My hobbies away from horse racing would be reading and painting; I love art.

Chantal Sutherland

#9. Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole
two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!

Bruce Lee

#10. I look like a real bag lady when I go to Starbucks with my dog and get my chai.

Shirley Maclaine

#11. Just now and then, maybe every few weeks and then only for minutes at a time, a breach appeared in the partition and I walked on through, because I have always taken that as a general rule of life: If a door opens, walk on through and at least take a look around.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#12. We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.

Albert Camus

#13. 3 Jesus replied, I tell you the truth, unless you are born again,* you cannot see the Kingdom of God.

Anonymous

#14. The past only has power over you when it's forgotten ... ignored or repressed.

Mark Kendrick

#15. Evading responsibility can lead to a life long pattern of criminal behavior.

Hetty King

#16. The object of advertising is to get people to feel better about the product you're selling.

Jerry Della Femina

#17. 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

#18. Take my love. One day share my life. Be my dearest, first on earth.

Charlotte Bronte