{"id":7073,"date":"2012-05-03T15:30:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T19:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/?p=7073"},"modified":"2012-05-03T15:17:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-03T19:17:57","slug":"new-york-officials-find-another-bad-test-question","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/05\/03\/new-york-officials-find-another-bad-test-question\/","title":{"rendered":"New York Officials Find Another Bad Test Question"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6490\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/04\/17\/science-blogger-finds-problems-with-fcat-questions\/error\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6490\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6490\" title=\"Error\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/04\/Error-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/04\/Error-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/files\/2012\/04\/Error.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-media-credit\">Nick J. Webb \/ Flickr<\/p><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">New York education officials are tossing a math question from the state test.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>New York education officials are throwing out a question on a state standardized test &#8212; the fourth time in a month the state has had to do so, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/schoolbook\/2012\/05\/02\/state-officials-throw-out-another-pearson-test-question\">according to the <em>New York Times<\/em>&#8216; Schoolbook blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This time it&#8217;s a math question above above the heads of fifth graders that&#8217;s causing the problem. To solve it, students would need to know the Pythagorean theorem and imperfect square roots &#8212; two concepts fifth graders have yet to learn.<\/p>\n<p>The question won&#8217;t count against student scores. It follows state officials tossing the <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/2012\/04\/23\/new-york-pulls-the-hare-and-the-pineapple-from-state-reading-test\/\">now-infamous &#8220;The Hare and the Pineapple&#8221; reading section<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>New York&#8217;s testing contractor, Pearson, also holds Florida&#8217;s testing contract.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York education officials are throwing out a question on a state standardized test &#8212; the fourth time in a month the state has had to do so, according to the New York Times&#8216; Schoolbook blog. This time it&#8217;s a math question above above the heads of fifth graders that&#8217;s causing the problem. To solve [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[1019,128,1006,361],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/florida\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}