Darell Hammond

We are raising today's children in sterile, risk-averse and highly structured environments. In so doing, we are failing to cultivate artists, pioneers and entrepreneurs, and instead cultivating a generation of children who can follow the rules in organized sports games, sit for hours in front of screens and mark bubbles on standardized tests.

American Businessman

Henry Petroski

I was always told that I was good in mathematics, and I guess my grades and standardized test scores supported that. My worst subjects were those that generally involved a lot of reading - English and history. So, having good test scores in math and mediocre ones in reading, I was naturally advised to major in engineering in college.

American Author

Stacey D'Erasmo

The railroads needed standardized time; as a result, the technology of train travel shaped the way everyone gets up, eats, goes to sleep, calculates age, and, perhaps of no small importance, imagine the world as a whole, ticking reliably, with reliable deviations, according to the beat of one central clock in a physical location.

American Novelist

Ken Robinson

Now the problem with standardized tests is that it's based on the mistake that we can simply scale up the education of children like you would scale up making carburetors. And we can't, because human beings are very different from motorcars, and they have feelings about what they do and motivations in doing it, or not.

English Educator

Angela Duckworth

The focus on just thinking about standardized test scores as being synonymous with achievement for teenagers is ridiculous, right? There are so many things that kids care about, where they excel, where they try hard, where they learn important life lessons, that are not picked up by test scores.

American Psychologist

Randi Weingarten

Standardized testing is at cross purposes with many of the most important purposes of public education. It doesn't measure big-picture learning, critical thinking, perseverance, problem solving, creativity or curiosity, yet those are the qualities great teaching brings out in a student.

American Activist

Richard Grasso

It should strengthen investors' confidence. This is done through transparency, high quality financial reports, and a standardized economic market. This is not just for China, but also for the world market as a whole.

Indya Moore

I think of makeup as more like a design, decoration, or jewelry. I mean, it's literally paint; it's art. I don't prefer to use it as concealing anything because it influences the illusion of standardized perfection.

American Actor

Jean Giraudoux

I tell you, sir, the only safeguard of order and discipline in the modern world is a standardized worker with interchangeable parts. That would solve the entire problem of management.

French Dramatist

Amber Heard

I don't imagine myself, my work, or my life, fitting into any kind of standardized path. In fact, the idea of there even being a standard freaks me out a lot.

American Actress

Standardize in business often relates to efficiency and uniformity across practices.

Industry Efficiency

Consistency is key for consumer products; standardizing ensures expectations are met.

Consumer Expectation

In science, standardize means results can be reliably compared or replicated.

Research Clarity

Using standardized terms in research avoids misunderstandings across the scientific community.

Precise Communication

In computing, to standardize is crucial for ensuring systems work together seamlessly.

Tech Compatibility

Standardization in computing helps users have a similar experience across different devices.

Cross-Platform Uniformity

Standardizing education aims at granting every learner the same quality of knowledge.

Educational Equity

Standardized tests are tools for measuring students' progress against common criteria.

Benchmarking Progress

 pi helps us understand periodic or oscillating systems like clocks, electromagnetic waves, and even music. In statistics, pi is used in the equation to calculate the area under a normal distribution curve, which comes in handy for figuring out distributions of standardized test scores, financial models,

The infinite life of pi...

 For much of history, the vast majority of language was spoken. But as people became more interconnected and writing gained importance, written language was standardized to allow broader communication and ensure that people in different parts of a realm could understand each other.

Does grammar matter? -...

 Chinese officials used them to determine aptitude for various government posts. The subject matter included philosophy, farming, and even military tactics. Standardized tests continued to be used around the world for the next two millennia, and today, they're used for everything

Should we get rid of...

 these dog types were standardized into breeds, with many new ones bred purely for appearance. Sadly, while all dog breeds are the product of artificial selection, some are healthier than others. Many of these aesthetic characteristics come with congenital health problems,

A brief history of dogs...

 and tried to measure their success and well-being throughout their life. By measuring the students' smiles, researchers were able to predict how fulfilling and long-lasting a subject's marriage would be, how well she would score on standardized tests of well-being,

The hidden power of...

 principles of industrialism and conformity and you strangle it with a culture of standardized testing which bleeds the life out of teachers and students alike don't be surprised if this is not a cordon of creativity and vitality and don't be surprised if in

Expanding our definition...

 The role of a teacher is to facilitate learning. That's it. And part of the problem is, I think, that the dominant culture of education has come to focus on not teaching and learning, but testing. Now, testing is important. Standardized tests have a place.

How to escape...

 Turns out that grittier kids were significantly more likely to graduate, even when I matched them on every characteristic I could measure, things like family income, standardized achievement test scores, even how safe kids felt when they were at school.

Grit: the power of...

The strongest predictor...

 than grade point average and standardized test scores all put together. And what it predicts in the early 30s are major life outcomes. It predicts physical health it predicts the likelihood of substance abuse.