Standardized Testing Quotes

• 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

  School, Horror, Creatures

  Alfie Kohn (2004). “What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?: And More Essays on Standards, Grading, and Other Follies”, p.54, Beacon Press

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• The need for education for the individual student should be recognized... home, neighborhood. But instead of that, we have the future being determined by standardized testing. 

  Nat Hentoff

  Home, Needs, Determined

  Source: www.humanlifereview.com

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

  James Dyson

  Lazy, Size, Fit

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• 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

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

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

  Louis C. K.

  Kids, Math, Thanks

  "Give parents some choice! Our kids' education should not be controlled by a monopoly" by John Stossel, www.foxnews.com. September 23, 2014.

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