Sometimes the most brilliant and intelligent minds do not shine in standardized tests because they do not have standardized minds.
An attack on Public Education is an attack on Democracy.
Those who can’t teach, pass laws about how to evaluate teachers.
Can teachers successfully educate children to think for themselves if teachers are not treated as professionals who think for themselves?
Testing is not a substitute for curriculum and instruction. Good education cannot be achieved by a strategy of testing children, shaming educators, and closing schools.
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
American education has been littered with failed fads and foolish ideas for the past century.
Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.
The greatest obstacle to those who hope to reform American education is complacency.
Without knowledge and understanding, one tends to become a passive spectator rather than an active participant in the great decisions of our time.
