Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Schools Matter: Who Owns Stock in Pearson?

Schools Matter: Who Owns Stock in Pearson?:


Who Owns Stock in Pearson?

Sometimes the comments are more profound than the story:
Comment on CommonDreams to Valerie Strauss story on High Stakes Standardized Tests
The question, reported by the New York Daily News, referred to a story similar to the famous Aesop fable about the tortoise and the hare, but in this version, a talking pineapple challenges a hare to race. The rabbit wins, not surprisingly, as the fruit can’t actually move, and other animals, who have wagered on the winner, eat the pineapple, according to the paper. Students were asked some perplexing questions:
Why did the animals eat the talking fruit, and which animal was wisest? "
And someone actually paid a lot of money to have this test developed and administered?  I think that demonstrates how utterly stupid the premise of