Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry by Todd Farley

Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry by Todd Farley

In this alternately amusing and appalling expos of the standardized test industry, fifteen-year veteran Todd Farley describes statisticians who make decisions about students without even looking at their test answers; state education officials willing to change the way tests are scored whenever they don't like the results; and massive, multi-national, for-profit testing companies who regularly opt for expediency and profit over the altruistic educational goals of teaching and learning. Although there are absurd moments--as when Farley and coworkers had to grade students based on how they described the taste of their favorite food-- the enormous importance of standardized tests in the post No Child Left Behind era make this no laughing matter.

This book is dynamite The nice personal voice makes it utterly accessible and enticing, wholly apart from the terribly important ammunition it provides to those of us in the testing wars' at national and local levels.--Jonathan Kozol, author of Savage Inequities

Farley, Todd: - Todd Farley is the Artistic Director of YFX Physical Theatre and Young Fenix Fellowship in Detroit. He was raised in Hawaii and the West Coast, where he entered the theater world through the art of mime at the height of its popularity in the 70s. He is an internationally recognized performer, professor, and author. He received his theatrical education at Ecole Internationale de Mimodrame de Paris, Marcel Marceau (1984-1987). One of the great fathers of mime, Marcel Marceau referred to Todd's work as master's synthesis of mime and dance. Todd has a PhD in Theology and Culture from Fuller Theological Seminary, where he served as Artist-in-Residence and as an adjunct professor. In the 80s, he founded the international touring company Mimeistry and created the curriculum for their three year college.

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ISBN 13	9780981709154
ISBN 10	098170915X
Title	Making the Grades: My Misadventures in the Standardized Testing Industry
Author	Todd Farley
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Berrett-Koehler Publishers
Year published	2011-02-01
Number of pages	272
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