Posts Tagged: Tests  Teaching To The Brand  "Brands are part of
our lives. To say they don't belong in academia is unrealistic."
—Brand names belong in standardized tests "because they are part
of the world students inhabit."   I kicked ass on verbal, btw.
If you're lucky enough to have a job in the next few years you
will probably be working for some punk kid who took the SATs
after they totally devalued the system. Here's how to adjust
your score so you can prove to that little snot exactly how well
you were able to take a test many years ago. After that, you can
explain who Kurt Cobain was.   “If a pineapple were funnier, I
would have written a pineapple in the first place"  “This was
done by somebody who was barely literate." —Daniel Pinkwater,
genius towering super-hero of literature, is profoundly pissed
at the mangling of his work that then caused the uproar over the
absurd and bizarre NYS reading exam test question about the
pineapple in the race with the hare.   Are You Smarter Than a
Cab Driver?  "