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

One test question asked why she, the poet, had separated one of the poems into two stanzas. There were two major problems with the question: 1) The test makers ...

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

One reason was simple inaccuracy. One question asked why the poet had inserted a stanza break in a particular spot– and then didn't insert a ...

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

The author of source material on two Texas standardized tests says she can't actually answer the questions about her own work because they are so poorly ...

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

Poet Sara Holbrook tells As it Happens guest host Helen Mann about her inability to answer questions on a standardized test.

[ARTICLE] Poet stumped by standardized test questions about her ...

Why would you have a multiple choice test on poetry? The answer could realistically be more than one, or even all of the options, ...

Poet Answers Standardized Test Questions About Her Poetry

Poet Answers Standardized Test Questions About Her Poetry – Incorrectly · receives an email from a distressed teacher who doesn't understand the ...

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 ...

What the author doesn't really go into is that doing well on a standardized test is a skill all of its own. It's somewhat reliant on the actual ...

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!

Connections: Poet Sara Holbrook, who couldn't ... - WXXI News

... poet, Sara Holbrook, whose work was selected for standardized test questions in Texas ... answer standardized test questions about her own poems.

Poet Can't Answer Questions About Her Own Poem on a Texas Test

Sara Holbrook recently told the Huffington Post that she became aware that two of her poems were being used here in Texas for standardized tests ...

Sara Holbrook Can't Answer These Texas Standardized Test ...

This is very funny and at the same time sad. Poet Sara Holbrook, alive and kicking, was not asked to tell examiners the answers to questions ...

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

"Smart students" learn to read their teachers and know how to feedback the expected answers even if they don't agree or believe in it.

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 ...

A poet says even she can't answer the questions about her poems ...

The poet found the questions on the tests absurd. In an op-ed in The Huffington Post on Jan. 4, she dissects each question to express her dismay at their ...

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

In the first stanza the exotic perfume of a woman brings the author thoughts of passion. This perfume makes him fantasize. In the next two ...

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 ...

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

... Can't Answer These Texas Standardized Test Questions About My Own Poems." The writer had discovered that two of her poems were part of the Texas

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

Holbrook, who was emailed questions on her poems by an eighth-grade English teacher in Texas, includes the specific test questions she has ...

Poet stumped by standardized test questions about her own poem

When Holbrook realized what happened, she sent a letter to the Huffington Post, which it in turn, published "I can't answer these Texas ...