In $32 Million Contract, State Lays Out Some Rules for Its Standardized Tests
By SHARON OTTERMAN
Published: August 12, 2011
Standardized tests in English and math taken by students in New York State are about to become slightly less tricky.
Beginning next spring, a new company, Pearson, will write the standardized tests that the Education Department gives to nearly all third through eighth graders. The department switched to Pearson this year after its contract with another company, CTB/McGraw-Hill, expired.
The department has advised the new company that catch-all answer choices known for
More Complex Picture Emerges in Rutgers Student’s Suicide
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
Published: August 12, 2011
Court papers filed this week offer a more complex picture of the Rutgers freshman who jumped to his death from the George Washington Bridge in September and of his roommate, who used a webcam days earlier to spy on him in an intimate encounter with another man.
Daniel Barry for The New York Times
Dharun Ravi stands accused of crimes related to his spying on Mr. Clementi.
The roommate, Dharun Ravi, who stands accused of several crimes related to his spying on Tyler Clementi, emerges from the documents as a young man who wanted to seem blasé about his roommate’s sexuality but was fixated on it. Mr. Clementi comes across as a teenager who was ill at ease with people and worried a