WHEN administrators in the Connetquot school district on New York’s Long Island decided earlier this year to hire more teachers for their schools, they began their selection process by requiring that the would-be teachers-all of them graduates of education schools-demonstrate the ability to answer the reading-comprehension questions on the State High School English Regents Test, which the school’s own students had been given over the years.
Here is the beginning of one reading passage and the questions based on it.
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