Is asking about secrets a good way to prod kids to write?
A New Jersey parent complained about a question on a state exam that asked third-graders to write about a secret and why it was hard to keep. His complaints have led the state to re-evaluate the use of the question.
This is the second news story in recent weeks about the integrity of a test question on a standardized exam. A few weeks ago, there was an outcry about a question on an 8th New York reading exam that asked about race between a hare and a talking pineapple. I read the passage and the questions and have to admit they were strange.
In this new case, parent Richard Goldberg objected when his twin 9-year-old sons told him that
