School Agrees to Stop Pumping Kids Full Of Mountain Dew Before Tests
A Florida elementary school has agreed to stop its longstanding policy of giving kids Mountain Dew as brain fuel before the state's most important standardized test.
What Secrets Are Your Children Hiding, New Jersey?
Elementary school standardized tests are quickly becoming arid wastelands of proper procedure rather than the lush, experimental adult imaginariums the test writers would like them to be.
NYC Standardized Tests: No Dancing, Death, or Politics
The New York Post reports that the New York City department of Education has advised testmakers of 50 not very controversial "controversial" words to avoid when creating city-wide standardized tests. Among those singled out: dancing (except ballet – guess someone hasn't seen Black Swan), death, and politics.
Which One Of These Things Is Not Like The Other?
This weekend the New York Times showed concern for suffering artists in the Week in Review, increasingly the kid's table of the paper. This was under the rubric Ideas and Trends but strangely was neither! Happily, for those of us who hate to read, there was a slideshow of suffering artists. But something was amiss.…
