New York State Tests for Fourth-Graders Included Passages Taken from Books Meant for Older Students

[Education - we're doing it incorrectly. ---Bozo]
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By Leslie Brody and
Melanie Grayce West
April 20, 2015 9:10 p.m. ET
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Some fourth-graders tackling New York state tests in language arts last week examined passages that were taken from books deemed by several independent rating systems to be at a fifth- or sixth-grade reading level, according to a person who saw the exam.
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For the past three years of new state exams aligned to the Common Core learning standards, a set of guidelines for skills children should master in each grade, critics have said some questions are too difficult and confusing for many children.
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A person who saw one of the four versions of the fourth-grade language-arts test spotted excerpts from three books that are considered at a fifth- or sixth-grade reading level by several widely used rating systems of children's literature.
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