“Parents protest Pearson, New York state’s ‘field-testing’ of exams”

Parents protest Pearson, New York state’s ‘field-testing’ of exams is the headline of a post in today’s HechingerEd.

Here’s how it begins:

Over 300 parents and their children gathered outside the New York City office of testing-giant Pearson Education this morning to protest the company’s field-testing of exams in elementary and middle schools across New York state.

Students in the Empire State took a new, longer standardized exam this spring as part of the state’s five-year, $32 million contract with Pearson. The contract mandates field-testing, which is the common practice of testing questions out on students before using them on actual exams.

That hasn’t sat well with some parents, especially in the wake of recent criticism of Pearson, after it was revealed in April that one of its tests included a seemingly nonsensical passage about a talking pineapple.

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