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Sunday, March 17, 2013

R.I. adults took a standardized test, and they didn’t like it

R.I. adults took a standardized test, and they didn’t like it:


R.I. adults took a standardized test, and they didn’t like it

testThis time it was the kids serving as proctors and the adultstaking the standardized test.
In Providence, R.I. on Saturday, several dozen state legislators, city officials, professors and others sat down for several hours at a library to take a standardized test that was created from actual questions off of the New England Common Assessment Program, or NECAP.
Why did they do it? The Providence Student Union, a high school student advocacy
group, persuaded several dozen high-powered adults to take the test as part of their protest against a new state requirement that high school seniors must reach a certain level of proficiency on the exam to graduate — even though the test wasn’t designed for this