Learning happens in the minds and souls, not in the databases of multiple-choice tests.

All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think.

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

The FSA tests are beginning to affect teaching and learning in a bad way. Because those tests are used to evaluate schools, students and classrooms, what's started to happen is teachers are being forced to teach to the test.

reasonable minds can differ.

reasonable minds can differ