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Diane Ravitch is an American historian and education policy analyst. She is recognized for her extensive work in the field of education, particularly her research on the history of American education and her criticism of the No Child Left Behind Act.

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“The trouble with test-based accountability is that it imposes serious consequences on children, educators, and schools on the basis of scores that may reflect measurement error, statistical error, random variation, or a host of environmental factors or student attributes. None of us would want to be evaluated - with our reputation and livelihood on the line - solely on the basis of an instrument that is prone to error and ambiguity. The tests now in use are not adequate by themselves to the task of gauging the quality of schools or teachers ... they must be used with awareness of their limitations and variability. They were not designed to capture the most important dimensions of education, for which we do not have measures.”

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Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

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“Perhaps the greatest obstacle to systemic reform was that it required numerous stakeholders - textbook publishers, test publishers, schools of education, and so on - to change, which turned out to be an insurmountable political obstacle.”

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Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

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“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.”

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Book:The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

Source: The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education

“Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.”

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