Pearson Tests Designed to Make the Brightest Child Feel Stupid
From Valerie Strauss at WaPo:
A New York school principal is urging the state’s education commissioner to review the standardized math assessments recently given to students in grades 3-5 because of a host of serious problems with their design. In a powerful letter, she also told him to take the tests to see the problems for himself.
New York has already had one embarrassing moment during this spring standardized testing season. A public furor arose over questions about a talking pineapple on the reading assessment for eighth gradersthat were so incomprehensible that Education Commissioner John B. King Jr., decided that the
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