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Tag: state testing

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Principal Protests Quality of State Tests

April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 - by Elizabeth Harball

Elizabeth Phillips, principal of P.S. 321 in New York, wrote a letter to John B. King Jr., the New York State education commissioner, complaining about the quality of this year’s …

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Author of Infamous Pineapple State Test Question Speaks Out

April 27, 2012 - by Elizabeth Harball

Daniel Pinkwater, author of the infamous “The Hare and the Pineapple” question on this year’s state test, wrote an opinion column for the New York Daily News, saying “All authors …

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Talking Pineapple Question Stumps Students

April 27, 2012April 27, 2012 - by Kimberly Drelich

A question on an eighth-grade state test regarding talking pineapples puzzled students and teacher and led to criticism, The New York Daily News reported.

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