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“Last year, we talked about looking at alternative ways of providing opportunities for students. We can’t keep doing things the same way,” said Superintendent Robert Horan.

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

By CAIN BURDEAU and MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Associated Press
 

NEW ORLEANS (AP) - Federal prosecutors brought the first criminal charges Tuesday in the Gulf oil spill, accusing a former BP engineer of deleting more than 300 text messages that indicated the blown-out well was spewing far more crude than the company was telling the public at the time.

Standardized Testing....Pineapples don't have sleeves

When Pineapple Races Hare, Students Lose, Critics of Standardized Tests Say

A reading passage included this week in one of New York’s standardized English tests has become the talk of the eighth grade, with students walking around saying, “Pineapples don’t have sleeves,” as if it were the code for admission to a secret society.

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

SCHODACK, N.Y. (AP) -- State police say a pickup truck driven by a woman who was later charged with drunken driving smashed into a tree, killing a passenger.

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Update on Fatal Crash

WTEN

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 

A serious accident in Castleton this morning leaves one person seriously injured. A caller reported the incident when they came upon a car into a tree. The accident occurred around 5 AM at 2388 River Road.
Two people were in the vehicle, one with serious injuries.

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.