The school superintendant in Springfield, Massachusetts, says he’s fully responsible for tests given to the district’s 11th- and 12th-graders that was filled with spelling, grammatical and factual errors. Two tests given in May to about 2,600 students contained a whopping 100 errors. The mistakes included the phrases “truning around” and “For Dog’s skae,” as well as a note on one test that read “This is the end of the Test,” when there were two more pages. The district contracts with an outside company to develop exams. Superintendant Alan Ingram said Monday it wasn’t the company’s fault. He said the district’s own proofreaders dropped the ball. Ingram said he would make sure the district does a better job of checking the tests in the future.
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