Doug Hinkle

“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

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

“Words had many meanings, he had learned, and whatever might be wholly true today might evolve to allow for different circumstances tomorrow. There was no falsehood in this, and no deliberate malice. It was an essential ability of humans to adapt to different circumstances, so characteristic of the species that it was probably ingrained in the DNA.”
― Martin Walker, An Enemy in the Village

“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