April 24, 2012
Ex-BP engineer arrested in Gulf oil spill case
Posted:
Apr 24, 2012 1:15 PM EDT
Updated:
Apr 24, 2012 6:15 PM EDT
Associated Press
April 23, 2012
Standardized Testing....Pineapples don't have sleeves
When Pineapple Races Hare, Students Lose, Critics of Standardized Tests Say
The passage is a parody of the tortoise and the hare story, the Aesop’s
fable that almost every child learns in elementary school. Only instead
of a tortoise, the hare races a talking pineapple, and the moral of the
story — more on that later — is the part about the sleeves.
In the world of testing, she said, it does not really matter whether an answer is right or wrong; the “right” answer is the one that field testing has shown to be the consensus answer of the “smart” kids. “It’s a psychometric concept,” she said.In the original version a rabbit races an eggplant, and children speculated Friday that the eggplant had been changed to a pineapple because some kids might not know what an eggplant was. Why the rabbit was changed to a hare was harder to explain. There is no mention of sleeves.
Suzanne DeChillo/The New York Times
A story by the children’s book
author Daniel Pinkwater, above, was adapted for an English test in a
way that baffled students
and caused officials to say that the questions
wouldn’t be counted.
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Update from CBS 6
Woman dead, driver charged with DWI after NY crash
Read more...
Update on Fatal Crash
Rensselaer
County DA's office says Lisa Hartigan, driver in today's fatal Schodack
DWI crash, to face a charge of vehicular manslaughter. Hartigan, 48, is
already facing a DWI charge in connection with the crash which killed
her passenger, 47-year old Darlene Walter
Serious Accident in Castleton
Posted at: 04/23/2012 7:05 AM
By: WNYT Staff
By: WNYT Staff
Two people were in the vehicle, one with serious injuries.
April 22, 2012
Schodack Girl Scouts Earth Day 2012
EARTH DAY, Sunday, April 22, Main Street will be filled with Girl Scouts in "safety" green shirts as they pick up trash and maintain the planters.
"Working by the road is hazardous, but with the donation of green safety shirts by Professional Services Industry, the girls will be easy to see as they give Castleton an Earth Day spruce up," said Kathy Misiaszek.
"Working by the road is hazardous, but with the donation of green safety shirts by Professional Services Industry, the girls will be easy to see as they give Castleton an Earth Day spruce up," said Kathy Misiaszek.
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