Political Quotes

“I do oppose national testing. I think it is dead wrong for America. I think when the national testing would be a national math exam for eighth graders, that does not have a single question on it which requires the student to demonstrate he can do one math calculation without a calculator, I think I am right and I am demonstrating that I care about education. In my view, more testing is not the answer. If the answer were more testing, we would not have a problem in education in America today, because American students are tested, and tested, and tested. Now, what does the national test do? In this case, the national test that President Clinton is proposing is not only wrong on the merits, because it does not test basic math computational skills, thanks to Mr. Steven Leinwand and a handful of other radical theorists who do not want to test basic math skills, that say that will make students feel bad, but what does it do? It takes money away from education.”