Media: The NY Times Looks Like It's Borrowing Others' Ideas (Again)

On August 17 of this year, Diana Senchal got inspired by a Diane Ravitch commentary about how easy it had become to pass some of the state assessments used to promote students from one grade to another and a NY Daily News story on the same topic.  With credit given to all, Senechal took the next step and guessed all the answers and still passed.Then, a month later the Times published a suspiciously similar story but credited neither Ravitch nor Senechal nor the Daily News.

Amazing news, Times readers!  You can guess the answers and still pass the test!  Who knew?  I know, I know.  I'm sure it was just a coincidence.  Great minds think alike.  Everybody knew about that.  The Times did lots of extra reporting in its version.  The Daily News is just a tabloid and who reads GothamSchools, anyway?   

Thanks to Claus Von Zastrow at the Learning First Alliance for the helpful tip.

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[MS]

Thanks for highlighting this - I noticed it too. Senechal deserves the credit for figuring that out, or at the very least being the first out of the gate with it.