Diane Ravitch, The Death And Life Of The Great American School System: How Testing And Choice Are Undermining Education Quotes
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.
Congress and state legislatures should not tell teachers how to teach, any more than they should tell surgeons how to perform operations.
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.