No one has a better take on the now infamous pineapple-hare question than E. D. Hirsch:
“It’s clearly an allegory. The pineapple is the Department of Education. The hare is the student who is eagerly taking the test,” said Hirsch, author of “Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know” and “The Knowledge Deficit.”
“The joke is supposed to be on the hare, because the questions are post-modern unanswerable,” he said. “But in fact the joke is on the pineapple, because the New York Daily News is going to eat it up.”
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1 Phyllis C. Murray
· Apr 22, 2012 at 1:04 pm
http://www.nytimes.com/schoolbook/2012/04/20/state-scraps-pineapple-test-question-after-outcry/