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The Elderly Man and the Sea? Test Sanitizes Literary Texts An angry coalition of authors, academics, and civil libertarians call this text sanitation "intellectual cowardice." Roseanne De Fabio, NY State Education Department assistant commissioner for curriculum, instruction and assessment says it's to protect children. "We do shorten the passages and alter the passages to make them suitable for testing situations," she told The New York Times. The changes are made to satisfy the sensitivity guidelines the department uses, so no student will be "uncomfortable in a testing situation," she said."Even the most wonderful writers don't write literature for children to take on a test." The New York Times |
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