Most innovation is about maintaining the logic of confidence between the public and the schools, not about changing the conditions of teaching and learning for actual teachers and students. Richard Elmore, Professor, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University
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When asked what a set of national standards should be like if you had to adopt them, former US Commissioner of Education Harold Howe II replied – "they should be as vague as possible". Harold Howe II, Former US Commissioner of Education
Measurable outcomes may be the least significant results of learning. Linda McNeil, Co-Director, Center for Education, Rice University
Basic ways of schooling children have been remarkably durable over the last hundred years. Larry Cuban, Educational Historian
A passion for learning isn’t something you have to inspire in kids; it’s something you have to keep from extinguishing. Deborah Meier, Educational Reformer, Writer and Activist
Many existing standards documents do not encourage teaching for understanding… they outline hundreds of bits of information for students to acquire at various grades in each subject area, creating expectations for content coverage that render impossible the in-depth study students need to understand and apply ideas. Linda Darling-Hammond, Educational Researcher, Professor, Stanford University
It may have been acceptable for schools to see themselves primarily as gatekeepers or sorting mechanisms when Canada had less need for well-education citizens, but that time has long past. Canada cannot afford to waste its human resources. Charles Ungerleider, Failing Our Kids (2003)
I was trying to find the most efficient way of giving students the knowledge and skils that I had, I was treating them as interchangeable receptacles. Bill Ayers, Professor, University of Illinois
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