<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Begin forwarded message:</font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></font><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>From: </b></span>Diane Ravitch<br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Date: </b></span>May 3, 2013 10:03:16 AM EDT<br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>To: </b></span>Will Fitzhugh <<a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org">fitzhugh@tcr.org</a>><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><b>Subject: </b></span><b>Re: Questions on a Passage</b><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><b><br></b></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Exactly right. <br><br>No question required prior knowledge. </font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br><br>Diane Ravitch<br><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">=============</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">(in response to her blog about</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">a new fifth-grade ELA exam</font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">described in the <i>New York Daily News</i>)</font></div><div style="font-size: medium; "><br></div></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></div><div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 73.0px; text-indent: -73.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>Subject: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span><b>Questions on a Passage</b></font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 69px; text-indent: -69px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>From: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Will Fitzhugh <<a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org">fitzhugh@tcr.org</a>></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 73.0px; text-indent: -73.0px; font: 16.0px Helvetica"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>Date: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>May 3, 2013 9:53:35 AM EDT</font></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 69px; text-indent: -69px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>To: </b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></span>Diane Ravitch <<a href="mailto:gardendr@gmail.com">gardendr@gmail.com</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 69px; text-indent: -69px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 69px; text-indent: -69px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Palatino" size="4"><br></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br>On May 3, 2013, at 9:53 AM, Will Fitzhugh <<a href="mailto:fitzhugh@tcr.org">fitzhugh@tcr.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></font><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Ah, the tried-and-true "questions on a passage."<br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Where would the College Board (and everyone else)<br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">be without it?<br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">It has the great advantage of not requiring the student<br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">to have gained any knowledge to that point. Everything<br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">he needs to talk about is IN the passage.<br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">More support for a content-free education.<br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><br></font></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4">Will<br></font></blockquote></div></div><br></div></div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Palatino; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; 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