The Writer Who Couldn't Answer Standardized Test Questions About ...

We are in standardized test season, and all across the country, students are taking the Big Standardized Test by which they, their schools, ...

Poet can't answer questions on standardized test about her own ...

If anyone should have been able to answer the questions, it's Sara Holbrook. The Ohio-based poet recently wrote a piece for the Huffington ...

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Connections: Poet Sara Holbrook, who couldn't answer standardized test questions about her own poems ... Have you heard the remarkable story of ...

Peter Greene: The Writer Who Could Not Answer Standardized Test ...

Peter Greene writes here about Sara Holbrook, a poet whose poems have been used on standardized tests. Back in 2017, Holbrook wrote an essay ...

Poet: I can't answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my ...

But here's something new: The author of source material on two Texas standardized tests says she can't actually answer the questions about her ...

Poet stumped by standardized test questions about her own poem

Poet Sara Holbrook, who often writes humorous verse for kids, had some harsh words for the Texas Education Agency after she discovered she couldn't answer ...

Poet: I can't answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my ...

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The Writer Who Couldn't Answer Standardized Test Questions About ...

What are we doing when we contrive in standardized tests to create “gotcha” questions that the author of a work can not even answer? The other ...

Poet admits she couldn't answer standardized test questions about ...

If you sat down to take a test and the questions were about you or your work, you'd have no problem, right? Try telling that to poet and ...

Poet Demonstrates Absurdity of Standardized Tests

We are in standardized test season, and all across the country, students are taking the Big Standardized Test by which they, their schools, ...

Poet: I can't answer questions on Texas standardized tests about my ...

Isaac Asimov often repeated an anecdote based on this: He once sat in on a class where the topic of discussion was one of his own works. (He did ...

I Can't Answer Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems ...

I always though how silly it was for teachers to pretend they got the correct answer in a text analysis of a century old author.

When a poet can't answer standardized test questions about her ...

Poet Sara Holbrook has had her poems analyzed not once, but twice, on standardized tests. She says it's b.s.. In 2017, Holbrook wrote an article for the ...

Poet Stumped by Standardized Test Questions on Own Poems

Among the questions she couldn't answer were those about the poet's motivation for stanza breaks and for the capitalization of certain words.

I Can't Answer These Test Questions About My Own Poems

When I realized I couldn't answer the questions posed about two of my own poems on the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR), I had a flash of panic—oh, no!

Author says: 'I Can't Answer These Texas Standardized Test ...

Poet Sara Holbrook discovered some of her poems were being used as seventh grade test items in Texas STAAR test. To her dismay, she couldn't ...

Poet criticizes Texas state test after not being able to answer ...

"When I realized I couldn't answer the questions posed about two of my own poems on the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR Test), I had a flash ...

We're torturing students by putting poetry on standardized tests

Poet Sara Holbrook shared a dire realization last week: She couldn't answer seventh- and eighth-grade-level questions about her own poems.

Poet Discovers Major Flaw In Standardized Testing - Affinity Magazine

“When I realized I couldn't answer the questions posed about two of my own poems on the Texas state assessment tests (STAAR Test), I had a flash ...

Poet: Why I would never tell a student what a poem means

... questions on Texas standardized tests about my own poems,” started this way: When I realized I couldn't answer the questions posed about two ...