— Barbara Adderley, principal of M. Hall Stanton Elementary School
From a May 7, 2007 on-line chat conducted by Education Week. Stanton is profiled in It’s Being Done: Academic Success in Unexpected Schools, a compilation of school profiles that first appeared as part of The Alliance Alert, some of which appear on the web site, www.achievementalliance.org.

— Dan Smith, executive director of the School Administrators of Iowa
As quoted in Des Moines Register, May 13, 2007

— Editorial, Cleveland Plain Dealer, April 14, 2007