Wendy Kopp Quotes

Louisiana standards and Louisiana tests for Louisiana students.

There certainly are some good aspects to Common Core.

Common Core, the initiative that claims to more accurately measure K-12 student knowledge in English and math, also encourages children to step up their 'critical thinking.'

Texas is a national leader in education reform and student achievement. Through our college- and career-ready standards and assessments, strong school accountability, and a focus on educator development, we have created an education system that prepares our students for success after graduation.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Yes - it's the same in any other work - the more you massage your thinking the more capable I believe you are of expanding how you go about things and learning.

I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think.

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

The Common Core State Standards are more rigorous standards than the great majority of states had in place previously.

I'm raised to actually think, to use my brain.

Fluid intelligence doesn't look much like the capacity to memorise and recite facts, the skills that people have traditionally associated with brainpower.

Where the private sector, or anyone else, has skills, knowledge and resources that can help to deliver a high quality of education and to raise standards, we should use them.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

There is a dearth of thinking skills - people are taught what to think, not how.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Students need to learn how to think critically, how to argue opposing ideas. It is important for them to learn how to think. You can always cook.

We have placed more emphasis on grades and school ranking than on genuine education.

Parents have a right to know whether their children are mastering the basics.

American ingenuity and innovation seem to be so nimble in responding to difficult problems that one could speculate that the progressivism that so many critics claim has seized American schools is the very fountainhead for that creativity and innovation.

If you want to reform schools, don't do it with testing. We used to say, "If you want elephants to grow, you don't weigh the elephants. You feed the elephants." Children will not grow unless they get quality instruction.

I think that there should be national standards in reading and math and maybe history and civics….We have a culture of non-compliance with Federal requirements in education.

The real question, therefore, is not whether students should be taught to think critically and self-reflectively, but instead what they should be thinking critically about.

Appropriate assessments are a crucial part of effectively educating students. But they only measure a narrow segment of what kids need to learn.