New York State’s standardized exam for U.S. history has been canceled because of content that could potentially “compound student trauma caused by the recent violence in Buffalo,” education officials announced on Tuesday.
Originally scheduled for June 1, the New York State U.S. History Regents Exam had already been printed and packaged for shipment to individual schools, according to a letter from state Education Commissioner Betty Rosa.
“While developed by [New York State]-certified social studies teachers more than two years ago and field-tested to confirm that the exam’s content is educationally sound, the tragedy in Buffalo has created an unexpected and unintended context for the planned assessment,” Rosa wrote in the letter to school administrators….