Pearson gets paid millions to license passages from children's lit authors for standardized test questions when those writers actively try to be absurdist & defy convergent thinking. Why does this seem like an enormous waste of children's time and taxpayer money?
Daniel Pinkwater on Pineapple Exam: ‘Nonsense on Top of Nonsense
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Eighth-graders who thought a passage about a pineapple and a hare on New York state tests this week made no sense, take heart: The author thinks it's absurd too.
