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Monty Neill Quotes

«Now, that may not get you the highest scores, but it's often geared to make sure kids at least pass it.»
Author: Monty Neill
«If money is focused more on helping low achievers get over the bar, [and] if money in general is fl at or shrinking, it comes from somewhere. Where it seems to come from is the richness of the program available to all students.»
Author: Monty Neill
«It's a concern, in that the pressure to get high test scores is causing students to spend a lot of time on things that have no use other than to boost test scores.»
Author: Monty Neill
«The drill and kill curriculum ... undermines rather than improves the quality of education.»
Author: Monty Neill
«It assumes an individual competition among teachers will be good when it's probably harmful.»
Author: Monty Neill
«There are two major implications [of the recent scoring errors]. Colleges such as Yale should devalue standardized testing and should have testing be an optional part of the application. In addition, there should be an independent investigation into these developments and into the testing industry and regulations in general.»
Author: Monty Neill
«The College Board did not handle this well, as indicated by the three separate announcements [of scoring errors]. There is a serious lack of clarity within the board. For a test that holds its students to high standards, it is clear that high standards are not found within the testing body itself.»
Author: Monty Neill