Quotes About Assessment

For most jobs, especially those in the digital economy, there is no objective standard for being 'qualified.' If you and the team you're working with think you're qualified, you are.

Beginning with the No Child Left Behind law and continuing today with Race to the Top, the federal emphasis on standardized assessments has become so excessive that it has modified state and district behavior in troubling ways.

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

If we are to have such a discipline we must have standards, and to get our standards under existing conditions we must have criticism.

The simple facts are these: We need higher standards in our schools, and we need to hold teachers accountable for the outcomes in their classrooms.

At the start of every season, I always asked myself - am I meeting my own standards? Can I still do it? I didn't want to come to the conclusion that I couldn't during a season.

An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.

The Federal Reserve's monetary policy objective is to foster maximum employment and price stability. In this regard, a key challenge is to assess just how far the economy now stands from the attainment of its maximum employment goal.

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

When a man puts me a question, I judge of his intelligence.

It is not easy to find perfect men in whom there is nothing to criticize.

As the touchstone tries gold, so gold tries men.

If Serena Williams played the men's circuit she'd be like 700 in the world.

Moral character is assessed not by what a man knows but by what he loves

Judge a man's character by what he finds ridiculous.

When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary.

If a man tells me he likes Mozart, I know in advance that he is a bad musician.

The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D.

Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.

No man likes to live under the eye of perpetual disapprobation.

Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

Like pictures, men should be judged by their merits and not by their defects.

Men are always more inclined to pitch their estimate of the enemy's strength too high than too low, such is human nature.