Nation : Test Catches Up With the News
State education officials hastily decided today to scrap questions about Eastern Europe on a sixth-grade social studies test instead of asking pupils to pretend the Cold War is still raging.
The questions will “be replaced as quickly as possible and we will send new instructions to the teachers,” said Glenn Keever, spokesman for the Department of Public Instruction. He said top officials in the department had been unaware of what the test administrators had done.
“We will have two other questions that will be drawn from another test that are current in terms of present conditions in Eastern Europe,” Keever said.
The Charlotte Observer reported this morning that instead of rewriting the 3-year-old standardized tests, teachers were being instructed to tell pupils to answer the questions as if Eastern Europe had not changed since 1987.
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