Doug Hinkle

“close and sometimes distant but always somehow attached.”
― Martin Cruz Smith, Hotel Ukraine

“By the time a child is assigned to my classroom, I’ve already begun to lay a foundation for a successful school year.”
― Paul Solarz, Learn Like a PIRATE: Empower Your Students to Collaborate, Lead, and Succeed

“The over-reliance on high-stakes standardized testing in state and federal accountability systems is undermining educational quality and equity in U.S. public schools by hampering educators’ efforts to focus on the broad range of learning experiences that promote the innovation, creativity, problem solving, collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and deep subject-matter knowledge that will allow students to thrive in a democracy and an increasingly global society and economy,” the organization states.5”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education

“To be globally competitive, developed countries must offer something qualitatively different, that is, something that cannot be obtained at a lower cost in developing countries. And that something is certainly not great test scores in a few subjects or the so-called basic skills.”4”
― Ken Robinson, Creative Schools: The Grassroots Revolution That's Transforming Education