Quotes by Robert Schaeffer

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The main reason I came here is because I wanted to witness the way this area has been cultivated with Luxembourg morals and standards. A lot of the old ways are mixed in with the American ways.
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The truth is that there is stronger public oversight and control over the food we feed our pets than for the tests administered to our children. We simply cannot trust the testing industry to oversee itself.
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In terms of consequences, this is the largest mistake ever made on the SAT.
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In classrooms serving low-income and minority kids, it turns into teaching the test. The test becomes the curriculum. Because of concerns that those kids are not going to pass, education becomes narrowed to the content of the test.
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The larger issue here is that the nation has put its trust in an unaccountable testing industry. It's yet another one of those cases in which the testing industry's screw-up could significantly harm people's education and their lives.
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The volume is way up, and the people with the competence to do this don't exist.
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Even when people emigrate to another country; they are still a piece of our history. Its interesting to see such a large number here and how they have adapted to life in another country over the years.
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It raises further questions about whether we yet know the full scope of the problem. It's not a large percentage, but if they were your scores or your kid's scores, it could mean something very significant.
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There's clearly something wrong with the management at the College Board and Pearson.
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People are under the false illusion that because the tests are graded by a machine that the process is objective. But everything, including programming the machine and doing quality control on it, is, in fact, done by human beings. And all humans make mistakes.
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