The Hare And The Pineapple Show Up In Albany To Protest Standardized Testing
Nice article in the Times Union on the protest up in Albany:
ALBANY — A duo infamous among educators mingled with the thousands at the One Voice United rally for education reform at the Empire State Plaza Saturday.
No, it wasn't State Education Commissioner John King and Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who some speakers lambasted and who were targeted by signs in the crowd calling for their ouster.
It was the hare and the pineapple.
The characters are from the nonsense story "The Hare and the Pineapple" by Daniel Pinkwater, which appeared on the state's 2012 Eighth Grade English Language Arts test. The questions about it were thrown out because they caused