Mary Wilhelmus Quotations

To perhaps confirm the teacher?s knowledge of that child?s learning already., so that, yes, we are going to work more on his numbers sense. We are going to work more on their grammar.

People with a $120,000 job as a research scientist aren't going to be knocking down doors to make $28,000 a year as a teacher.

One of the challenges is that when you get scores like that in the upper 80s or better, improving on that is increasingly difficult.

What we've seen is, when you ask them to do more, they do.

I think many people recognized that having the oldest kindergartners in the country is not a good thing. We know so much more about child development and brain research that we know the earlier we get them to school, the better.

We really like the diagnostic part. We really think the ten-year plan offers us some opportunity. We don't think simply moving the test gains us any value.

Trend data has to be along the same line.

We certainly know we need to do better, but this is a starting point.

The vast majority of parents work hard at making sure (their children) get an education. There are some people who aren't as responsible about it.