Comments on: State cracking down on testmaker Pearson after spate of issues

By: Fred Smith

Fred Smith — Sat, 16 Jun 2012 16:12:00 +0000

Looks like Merryl Tisch is keeping a low profile on this one, letting John King assure us that SED is closing the barn door, yet again, on problems in the testing program. They never run out of wool up in Albany do they?

Fred Smith

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:47:00 +0000

I was told they would soon be writing the Global Regents. Does anyone know anything about this?

By: Mary Conway-Spiegel

Mary Conway-Spiegel — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:06:00 +0000

…That could be a test question for next year “The Mouse That Watched The Cheese,” oops “The Rutabaga That Watched The Cheese.”

By: Fran

Fran — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:49:00 +0000

And look what the author, Daniel Pinckwater, had to say about this controversy:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303513404577356113609677208.html

By: leonie haimson

leonie haimson — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:20:00 +0000

An “expert independent review” bought and paid for by Pearson? Done by whom and why should this be trusted? and why should we trust King’s estimate of how many flawed questions there were in these tests, given that no one has been allowed to see them outside his office? Principals and teachers have pointed out many other ambiguous or badly-worded reading passages others than those catalogued above.

A real independent review panel should be appointed, including parents and teachers, and guess what? I bet that they would not have to paid.