A silly question about a pineapple & a rabbit is enough to topple validity of Pearson multiple choice tests. Standardized tests don't teach divergent thinking. Isn't this what our kids should be learning instead? NY, I see where you can save $31 million in the blink of an eye and spend it on the kids instead.
State Scraps "Pineapple" Test Question – SchoolBook
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State Education Commissioner John King yanks a series of questions from this year's eighth grade English Language Arts exam, following an uproar about a certain pineapple and a hare that it challenged to a race.
